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Sending stanza

Structure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A final stanza that symbolically dispatches the poem to its intended audience, often invoking protection or purpose for its journey.

Detailed Definition
A concluding stanza that addresses the poem to a specific recipient and sends it forth, combining dedication with dispatch. This traditional ending creates relationship between poem and addressee beyond general audience, treating the work as gift or message with specific destination. The sending gesture acknowledges the poem as made object traveling from poet to receiver, establishing intimacy through direct address.
Example
Example in poetry:
Sending stanza concludes a poem with farewell or dispatch: Ben Jonson’s “Song: To Celia”: “But might I of Jove’s nectar sup, / I would not change for thine”; Contemporary example: “Go now— / the road is yours, the sky unmarked”; In epistolary poems: “Write soon, though I know you won’t”; Such stanzas often use imperative or blessing; They create closure through release; May reference letters, journeys, or messages.
Additional Notes
Concluding stanza addressing poem to recipient and sending it forth. Traditional ending for ballades and other medieval forms. Creates sense of poem as gift or message dispatched to specific person.
Also Known As
Envoy Envoi Dispatch verse Farewell stanza Envoi Quatrain
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