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* the <b>royalty elegy</b> (often a monarch)
* the <b>royalty elegy</b> (often a monarch)
* the <b>lover's lament</b> on themes including the lover's death, or abandonment by one's lover
* the <b>lover's lament</b> on themes including the lover's death, or abandonment by one's lover
* the <b>religious lament</b>, such as Jeremiah's Lamentations
* the <b>religious lament</b>, such as [[Lamentations of Jeremiah|Jeremiah's Lamentations]]


<font style="font-size:85%">(See also the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament Wikipedia article] on laments.)</font>
<font style="font-size:85%">(See also the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lament Wikipedia article] on laments.)</font>

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A lament or lamentation is a work expressing grief, regret, or mourning. Many of the oldest poems in human history have been laments, and a rich tradition of musical settings has followed.

Subcategories include:

  • the composer elegy (a/k/a epitaphium)
  • the royalty elegy (often a monarch)
  • the lover's lament on themes including the lover's death, or abandonment by one's lover
  • the religious lament, such as Jeremiah's Lamentations

(See also the Wikipedia article on laments.)

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