envoi

• “This poem is subtitled "An envoi to 'The Story Of The Gadsbys'" - an "envoi" is effectively a postcript, and "The Pride Of The Gadsbys" was a play (or a series of fragments of plays) written earlier by Kipling.”

  The Winners

• “Nevertheless, he decided to append a little envoi to make the thing land more easily.”

  Fictionaut: A Complaint to His Purse

• “And this must bring us to the writing of “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” which was his farewell to England and his envoi, also, to both “democracy” and “civilization.””

  A Revolutionary Simpleton

• “Is this Knight-Jadczyk, if a real person, altogether sure she is not the consequence of a secret cloning of Stanslaw Lem and Kurt Vonnegut, to be unleashed on the 21st Century as posthumous envoi?”

  Not only are they better capitalists, but better peacemakers too? « Antiwar.com Blog

• “Food, envoi mental and safety standards set by our democratic institutions are subject to challenge if they conflict with those approved by unelected international trade bureaucracies.”

  A True Maverick

• “Algernon Charles Swinburne particularly favoured, the Ballade, is the Ballade Supreme, with its 10-lined stanzas and five-line envoi.”

  Great Regulars: Its form, a variant of the French form

• “In the early years of the last century socialists in England used to sing a hymn about their liberation from exploitation and under-representation: its title and opening line serves as the perfect envoi today.”

  [england] this day is for you

• “A sestina is a fixed verse form in which six end-words recur in a set order in six stanzas and a three-line envoi (a coda or postscript).”

  2007 March 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews

• “At the end, the woman returns her young lover to his previous mistress with this envoi:”

  Napoleon's Eye

• “I think the envoi has had the most formal influence on me, other than the complex "I" of lyrical/confessional poems.”

  Lynn Crosbie reads Sid Vicious and Entertains A Few Questions

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