elegiac vs lyric

elegiac

adj
  • Of or relating to an elegy. 

  • Expressing sorrow or mourning. 

noun
  • A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. 

lyric

adj
  • Of or relating to a writer of such poetry 

  • Of or relating to the lyre (or sometimes the harp) 

  • Having a light singing voice of modest range 

  • Of or relating to musical drama and opera 

  • lyrical 

  • Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style 

  • melodious 

noun
  • The words of a song or other vocal music. 

  • A lyric poem. 

How often have the words elegiac and lyric occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )