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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Accumulative verse

Form
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 poetic structure that builds meaning through the successive addition of phrases, images, or clauses

Detailed Definition
Accumulative verse is a poetic form characterized by the progressive addition of phrases, images, or syntactic units that build upon one another to create a cumulative effect, often enhancing emotional intensity or thematic complexity; this technique, seen in works like Walt Whitman’s catalogs or biblical psalms, relies on repetition with variation to generate momentum and depth without strict metrical constraints, allowing the poem to expand organically through layered accumulation rather than linear narrative.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” builds through cataloging: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume…”; Carl Sandburg’s “Chicago” accumulates descriptors: “Hog Butcher for the World, / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat…”; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” uses anaphora and listing to create overwhelming momentum; “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” by Wallace Stevens layers quiet observations into a meditative whole.
Additional Notes
Accumulative verse builds meaning through the incremental addition of images, phrases, or clauses, often without traditional syntax; it creates momentum and emotional intensity by layering details—think of Whitman’s catalogs or Ginsberg’s lists; useful for evoking abundance, chaos, or overwhelming sensation.
Also Known As
Catalog verse additive poetry enumerative lyric accumulative lyric Additive composition heaping up
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