Difference between Laments and Elegy

LAMENTS vs ELEGY: NOUN

A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
A poem composed in elegiac couplets.
A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.
A composition that is melancholy or pensive in tone.
In classical poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse.
A mournful or plaintive poem; a poem or song expressive of sorrow and lamentation; a dirge; a funeral song.
Any serious poem pervaded by a tone of melancholy, whether grief is actually expressed or not: as, Gray's “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.”
In music, a sad or funeral composition, vocal or instrumental, whether actually commemorative or not; a dirge.
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Something resembling such a poem or song.

Complains, Bemoans, Coronach, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation, Bemoan

Poetry, Symphonic poem, Prose poem, Sonnet, Epitaph, Lamentation, Ballad, Paean, Melancholy, Poem, Requiem, Threnody, Ode, Dirge, Lament

Mourning, Mourn, Moans, Mourns, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation

Poetry, Symphonic poem, Prose poem, Sonnet, Epitaph, Lamentation, Ballad, Paean, Melancholy, Poem, Requiem, Threnody, Ode, Dirge, Lament

Their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward.
Individual Laments, songs of supplication, complaint, grief, or sorrow.
Ozzy, mixing ruthless rage with sorrowful laments towards heaven.
Hollywood, or laments the gentrification of black neighbourhoods.
Larry laments that Delta has a terrible reputation.
Yap laments: Local guidelines not against national prot.
My hart laments the errors of mine eie.
Julie laments, is a huge problem as well.
Bill Gates laments White House meddling with FDA.
Getty, Jack laments his cobbler addiction, Marshall laments another setback in quest for improved fitness and Joe.

Odes typically presents elegy in a negative light.
Elegy for a Young American, Ronald Lo Presti.
Elegy is in the Library of Eton College.
It was also rich in elegy and invective.
Elegy in a country churchyard, and other poems.
He wrote an elegy on the Spanish Expulsion.
We see it in the simple fact that this elegy is complete as an elegy, but it is incomplete as a lament.
Latin and Elegy II Intermediate readings in Latin Lyric and Elegy.
This capacity of elegy is part of the overall function of elegy.
ISBN 9789829092069 Prasad, Mohit (2006) When three met, shared fire: elegy: a certain elegy.