A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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ABBA structure

Rhyme
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 rhyme scheme where the first and fourth lines rhyme, and the second and third lines rhyme

Detailed Definition
An organizational pattern in poetry where elements follow an ABBA arrangement, most commonly referring to rhyme scheme but also applicable to thematic or syntactic patterns. In rhyme, the first and fourth elements match while the second and third match, creating a chiastic or mirrored structure. This enclosed pattern creates unity and balance, giving a sense of completion and symmetry. The structure can also refer to thematic development where ideas introduced in the beginning are revisited in reverse order at the end.
Example
Example in poetry:
ABBA structure example: A rhyme scheme where the first and last lines rhyme and the middle two lines rhyme, such as in a quatrain: "Bright flowers bloom in morning’s glow (A), A gentle breeze begins to rise (B), The songbird sings its sweet reprise (B), While dewdrops in the sunlight show." (A)
Additional Notes
ABBA structure is synonymous with enclosed rhyme, commonly found in Petrarchan sonnets and certain hymns; it provides a sense of containment and symmetry, useful for expressing complex or contrasting ideas within a tight frame.
Also Known As
ABBA rhyme structure Encircling rhyme scheme Folded rhyme form Chiastic Chiastic structure
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