Poetically lamenting something past (7)

I believe the answer is:

elegiac

(Other definitions for elegiac that I've seen before include "Funereal" , "Mournful, lamenting" , "Like classical couplets" , "of valedictory works" , "Plaintive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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