monody

“The Wishing Tree,” a beautiful, seemingly slight nine-line monody, commemorates his laconic, generous mother—“I thought of her as the wishing tree that died / And saw it lifted, root and branch, to heaven.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019

Suddenly, a hidden 35-piece baroque orchestra begins the accompaniment to the introductory monody, and a spotlight picks out a bearded Father Time at the door of a pyramid above the abyss.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of these is the rhyming of words like utterly, monody, lethargy, etc.; these endings seem weak when they are bunched.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston

His music belongs entirely to the ancient period of monody.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

At twelve years, he wrote a monody on "The Burial of Brian Boru," which is given below.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese

Its monodies are twelve poems, whose music strives to change yet ever is the same.

From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan

Asides and soliloquies.Lengthy monodies, monologues and episodical specialties.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace

His business was to devise dirges, monodies, laments, descortz in the Provençal manner; to cry "Heigho!" and "Well-a-day!" not "Ban!" or "Out, haro!"

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

I had in my collection no fewer than forty-seven monodies and dirges on Stonewall Jackson; some dozens on Ashby and a score on Stuart.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.

The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have consisted of at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.

From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Carman, Bliss