Coda vs. Envoi — What's the Difference?

(Music) The concluding passage of a movement or composition.

Envoi or envoy in poetry is used to describe: A short stanza at the end of a poem such as a ballad, used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem. A dedicatory poem about sending the book out to readers, a postscript.

A conclusion or closing part of a statement.

A short closing stanza in certain verse forms, such as the ballade or sestina, dedicating the poem to a patron or summarizing its main ideas.

(music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.

The concluding portion of a prose work or a play.

(phonology) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.

(poetry) A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.

(geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.

A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

(figuratively) A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

The closing section of a musical composition