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

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

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

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