SOME THINGS NEED TO BE IGNORED--

From a recent news story I learned the word “elegiac”, pronounced e-LEE-je-ak or thereabouts.

Basically, it means being sad about something past.

But, in the third entry describing what the word means, Dictionary.com said:

3. Classical Prosody. Noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and sixth foot.

Made me sorry I was curious.