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

They were rains that lured him forth to dabble in their gentle fountains, to listen at the window of Ninety-nine to their rippling monody, and at night to lie awake infatuated.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Milton's "Lycidas" is a monody on the death of the poet's friend, Edward King.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

Stung by this rebuff, Burns recoiled at once to the opposite extreme of feeling, and penned a grossly scurrilous monody on "a lady famed for her caprice."

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell