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Monody - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Monody poetry is originally a Greek song of lamentation. The monody or threnody is a poem in which one person laments another's death. The poem many have any number of stanzas and there is no particular syllable count or rhyme scheme to follow in this style of poetry as one will find in the sonnet form.
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; Monody; On a lady famed for her Caprice. How cold is that bosom which folly once fired, How pale is that cheek where the rouge lately glisten'd; How silent that tongue which the echoes oft tired, How dull is that ear which to flatt'ry so listen'd! ... Recent poems and topics at Everypoet's Poetry Free-for-all:
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12-20-2009 4:46 AM ... To hate living but still be unable to do anything to change life, Being eaten inside by the pain and the strife. To feel sadness, having no way to fill the emptiness that’s like a gaping hole: Burst wide open inside of your soul. ... To know that someone so great is gone forever,
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These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding. All examples were provided by the members of Shadow Poetry or previous Egroup.
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