The poem might also conclude with a half stanza or tornada, (French envoi).
But as a writer reviews his own words, it is inevitable that some sort of envoi should present itself to his mind.
Even in Modern English poetry the envoi has not quite gone out of use.
In Middle English poetry the envoi mostly serves the same purposes.
The scheme is a b a b c c d d e d E in the stanzas and d d e d E in the envoi.
At the end of nearly every section he adds an envoi of his own to drive home the moral more surely.
Guynemer's biography is of such a nature that it must seem like a poem: why not, then, conclude it with an envoi?
It is composed of five strophes, identical in arrangement, of eleven verses each, and of an envoi of five verses.
The absence of an envoi will be noticed in Chaucer's, as in most of the medieval English ballades.
"I will try to remember the last stanza and the envoi as we go along," added Victor.
