Melancholy poem
The crossword clue "Melancholy poem" is answered by ELEGY, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ELEGY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ELEGY answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1977. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ELEGY
Every other clue in this collection answered by ELEGY, most used first.
- Mournful poem - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
- Plaintive poem - used 33 times, most recently in 2023
- Poem of lament - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Poetic lament - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Sorrowful poem - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Sorrowful song - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Sad poem - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Thomas Gray work - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Lament - used 9 times, most recently in 2005
- Shelley's "Adonais," e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Somber poem - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Pensive poem - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Plaintive piece - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Somber verse - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Funeral song - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Melancholy verse - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Song of lament - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Lamentation - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Lyric poem - EPODE, used 142 times
- Pastoral poem - IDYLL, used 82 times
- Kilmer poem - TREES, used 69 times
- 17-syllable poem - HAIKU, used 45 times
- Poem division - CANTO, used 37 times
- Division of a long poem - CANTO, used 27 times
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