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

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

From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher

Far away the muffled monody of the river falls rose towards the stars, whose light wove a golden braid across the water's quivering crystal plunge over granite crags.

From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

All sounds were dominated by the whirr of the mill in its busy, industrial monody, and within naught else could be heard, save the strident voices pitched on the miller's key and roaring the gossip.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

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

From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Take away the last stanzas, which should be applied more definitely to the body, or cut away altogether as a lie against eternal verity, and the poem stands as one of the finest of monodies.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

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 Bliss Carman

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

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké

She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer