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Bir örnek:







Lycidas* - (John Milton)







Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more



Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,



I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,



And with forced fingers rude



Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.



Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear



Compels me to disturb your season due



For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,



Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.



Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew



Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.



He must not float upon his watery bier



Unwept, and welter to the parching wind,



Without the meed of some melodious tear.







Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well



That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring



Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.



Hence with denial vain and coy excuse



So may some gentle muse



With lucky words favour my destined urn,



And as he passes turn,



And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud.







For we were nursed upon the self-same hill,



Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill



Together both, ere the high lawns appeared



Under the opening eyelids of the morn,



We drove a-field, and both together heard



What time the grey-fly winds her sultry horn,



Battening her flocks with the fresh dews of night,



Oft till the star that rose, at evening, bright,



Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.



Meanwhile the rural ditties were not mute



Tempered to the oaten flute,



Rough satyrs danced, and fauns with cloven heel



From the glad sound would not be absent long



And old Damaetus loved to hear our song.







diye devam eden uzun bir ağıt...







* Milton'un okul arkadaşı Edward King'in denizde boğulması üzerine yazdığı eleji (... Genel anlamda, insanın ölümlülüğü temasını işleyen, birbirini izleyen bir vurgulu iki vurgusuz heceli ayaklardan oluşan beşli ve altılı ölçüyle yazılan ve konuyla sınırlı olmayan şiire verilen addır. Modern batı edebiyatında bu terim şiirin içeriğinden çok ölçüsünü belirtir. Alman edebiyatında ölçü özelliği öne çıkarken, ingiliz edebiyatında şiir türü olarak tanınır. Eleji, modern şiirde de sık rastlanan önemi bir şiirsel anlatım biçimidir.)







elegie, elegy...



ağıt, mersiye...







Kaynak:Antropoloji