Lament
A
lament or
lamentation is a passionate expression of
grief, often in
music,
poetry, or
song form. The grief is most often born of
regret, or
mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing,
moaning and/or
crying. Laments constitute some of the oldest forms of writing, and examples exist across human cultures.
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