| The absence of an envoi will be noticed in Chaucer's, as in most of the medieval English ballades. |
| Even in Modern English poetry the envoi has not quite gone out of use. |
| But as a writer reviews his own words, it is inevitable that some sort of envoi should present itself to his mind. |
| It is composed of five strophes, identical in arrangement, of eleven verses each, and of an envoi of five verses. |
| In Middle English poetry the envoi mostly serves the same purposes. |
| The finale, chock-full of thrown rhythms, is a bit cavalier too, but serves as a cheerful envoi to the whole series of seven. |
