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 Bert Leston Taylor

It is a short monody, or Ode of one stanza containing fourteen lines, with uncommonly frequent returns of rhymes more or less combined.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton

Leaving Shakespeare, he pondered the note Of Nisami, and heard in his leisure The hoopoe's weird monody float, And set it to soft Orient measure.

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Agnes Lee

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

From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

We can use these elegies, reveries and monodies as a means of discovering the nature of the virtues thus brought out from obscurity, though in coloring too pale and uniform.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

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

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké

The slave class is the topic of many of these monodies: either the virtues of the loyal slave are extolled140, or the knavery of the cunning slave141.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké

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