This hugely successful series has now been running for a quarter of a century, which may account for the novel's elegiac tone.

In fact an elegiac tone infects all four of these books.

Many of this season's stories also had an elegiac tone, with entropy and decay being a recurring theme.

The play maintains an elegiac tone throughout for a tribal past, for a people one physically and spiritually in harmony with their world.

The idea of her death weighs heavily on the poet throughout the series, imbuing it with a melancholic, elegiac tone.