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Examples of envoi
envoi
The last stanza, a sudden, personal address, makes the perfect envoi.
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Through the winter of 1858-59 Bizet worked on his first envoi, an opera buffa setting of Carlo Cambiaggio's libretto Don Procopio.
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Under the terms of his prize, Bizet's first envoi was supposed to be a mass, but following his Te Deum experience he was averse to writing religious music.
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- Envoy: a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
- In poetry, an envoi is a short stanza at the end of a poem used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.
- An alternative French spelling for envoy, below.
- The final, parting lines of a story-poem, most often used in ballads and, in pre-Renaissance Italy, canzones.
- Often found in ballads, it is a short, concluding stanza which functions as a dedication.
- From the French meaning "sending forth." A loosely defined form depending whose purpose was at the whim of the poem it could conclude, summarize, or encourage. It is a short stanza that appears at the end of certain poetic forms such as: sestina, the Franch ballade, and the virelai nouveau. ...
