'''Automelon''' ([[w:Greek language|Greek]]: ''auto'', "self" + ''melon'', "melody"; [[Church Slavonic]]: ''samopodoben'')—pl. ''automela''—is a [[sticheron]] which has it's its own melody, and serves as a model for other stichera. <ref>Nikita Simmons, [http://www.synaxis.info/psalom/hymnography/2_sticheraric/stichera_melodies.html#1 ''The Three Classes of Melodic Forms for Stichera'' - Idiomelon], 2002</ref> Some examples of automela are "O most marvellous wonder", and "O house of Ephratha."<ref>Some examples in Russian chant can be found here [http://mux.net/~ulmo/special-melodies.html http://mux.net/~ulmo/special-melodies.html]</ref>