Writing an Elegy

In perusing your first drafts, it seems like some of you are writing poems that would be considered elegies, or poems of sorrow and remembrance.  Writers use this form when they want to remember someone or something dear to them that has passed.  From Poets.org:

The elegy began as an ancient Greek metrical form and is traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group...The elements of a traditional elegy mirror three stages of loss. First, there is a lament, where the speaker expresses grief and sorrow, then praise and admiration of the idealized dead, and finally consolation and solace.

You can find some examples at the link above.  Or, you can find 203 elegies here.

Again, this isn't for all of you, but if you are writing about a person who has passed on, these might serve as good examples.