elegiac vs prosaic

elegiac

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

adj
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning. 

  • Of or relating to an elegy. 

prosaic

adj
  • Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry. 

  • Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. 

  • Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring. 

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