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deplore collapse: express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners"; regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"

mourn collapse: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"; observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one

cortege collapse: the group following and attending to some important person; a funeral procession

lament collapse: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"; express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"

funeral collapse: a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"

calypso collapse: (Greek mythology) the sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years; rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf

theme song collapse: a melody that recurs and comes to represent a musical play or movie

ditty collapse: a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)

sonnet collapse: a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme; compose a sonnet; praise in a sonnet

idyll collapse: an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll

limerick collapse: a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba; port city in southwestern Ireland

madrigal collapse: an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form; sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully"

roundelay collapse: a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain

rondeau collapse: a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

epic collapse: very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"; constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; "epic tradition"

grieve collapse: feel grief; eat one's heart out; cause to feel sorrow; "his behavior grieves his mother"

national anthem collapse: a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation

lyric collapse: a short poem of songlike quality; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"; expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"; used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"; of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"; relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"; write lyrics for (a song)

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