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Definition of elegiac:

Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
verse.

Synonyms:

funereal, plaintive, sad, mournful, sorrowful.

Usage examples:

Not always, however, I have seen some unpublished verses by a young officer on the staff of the late General Hubert Hamilton, a man beloved by all who knew him, describing the burial of his dead chief at night behind the firing- line, which in their sombre and elegiac beauty are not unworthy to rank with the classical lines on the burial of Sir John Moore.

- "Leaves from a Field Note-Book", J. H. Morgan.
It is now thirty- six years since my first volume of miscellaneous verse, lyrical and dramatic and elegiac and generally heterogeneous, had as quaint a reception and as singular a fortune as I have ever heard or read of.

- "Poems & Ballads (First Series)", Algernon Charles Swinburne.
The other appears too elegiac, and the couplet at the end of it has seldom a pleasing effect.

- "Life of John Keats", William Michael Rossetti.