monody

Example Sentences

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“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

Now it happened that the song was a monody on the death of the Duc d'Enghien, for whose death Napoleon had been greatly blamed by friends as well as by foes.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah

The poem is a monody on the tragedy at the theater.”

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

For money the cranes of the pumps creaked their monody.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen