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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Abbreviated structure

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 concise poetic design that employs a recognized formal pattern—such as sonnet, ode, or epic—in a reduced, skeletonized form, focusing on essential structural signals while omitting extensive elaboration.

Detailed Definition
A compressed or condensed organizational framework in poetry that reduces expected patterns to their minimal expression. This can involve shortened line lengths, reduced stanza counts, or compressed syntactic units that convey meaning through economy rather than elaboration. Abbreviated structures create intensity through compression, forcing readers to fill gaps and make connections. Common in modernist and contemporary poetry, this approach values concision and the power of suggestion over explicit statement.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s dashes and truncated lines (“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”) exemplify abbreviated structure for emotional intensity; Haiku’s 5-7-5 form is a globally recognized abbreviated structure emphasizing brevity and suggestion; Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” (“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough”) uses abbreviated structure to fuse image and emotion; William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” condenses meaning into minimal stanzas; Sappho’s fragmented lyrics demonstrate ancient abbreviated structure that invites interpretive completion
Additional Notes
Abbreviated structure refers to poems that intentionally omit expected formal elements (like full stanzas or complete syntax) to evoke incompleteness, modernity, or emotional rawness; related to fragmentation in modernist poetry.
Also Known As
Truncated composition Condensed structure Abridged arrangement Curtal form Telegraphic stanza Truncated pattern
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