elegiac vs saturnine

elegiac

adj
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning. 

  • Of or relating to an elegy. 

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

saturnine

adj
  • Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy. 

  • Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism). 

  • Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react. 

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