mournful verse
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- requiemMass for the deceased
- threnodyMemorial song of grief
sorrow · grief · funeral · weeping · eulogy · melancholy · plaintive · somber · keening · epitaph · loss · wailing · tears · sonnet · ballad · mourning · death · remembrance
emotional tone
mournful versecomic verse
Funny poetry
humorous poetry · light verse · nonsense verse · doggerel · limerick
occasion/purpose
mournful versewedding poem
Verse honoring a marriage
wedding song · encomium · panegyric · ode · paean