elegiac vs woeful

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. 

woeful

adj
  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. 

  • Wretched; paltry; poor. 

  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. 

  • Lamentable, deplorable. 

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