The verse of the laments is Adonic.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

As you can see, this hymn is in my favorite meter: 11 11 11 5, called the "Sapphic and Adonic meter," apparently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

A warlike song in Sapphic and Adonic stanzas created a more favourable impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of My Youth]

Of these the four-syllable type seems to me the one to be preferred, as giving the effect of the Adonic better than if it had been two syllables longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference

Abandoning the usual arrangement in stanzas of three lesser Sapphics followed by an Adonic verse, his Sapphic choruses consist almost entirely of the lesser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Sapphic varied by a very occasional Adonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

Marcellut and Adonic to the (lars.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..] Reference