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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accusative construction

Phrase
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 grammatical phrase centered on the accusative case, often indicating direct object or extent

Detailed Definition
Accusative constructions in poetry specify action’s target or spatial/temporal scope (“through many lands”); they provide syntactic precision and rhythmic variation, especially in Latinate or classical-influenced verse where case governs relational clarity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Him they called the wanderer, his feet worn by the road’s long curse; the gods punished him, not for pride, but for love’s blind defiance; she loved him still, though he had stolen her name and left her in the dust; the wind remembers him, though none now speak his accusative form.
Additional Notes
The accusative construction in poetry often marks direct objects but can also express emotional or existential extent, as in “he loved her to the edge of death”; in classical poetry, it appears in Latin and Greek translations to denote motion toward or duration; English poets like Milton use it for rhetorical weight: “the soul to heaven ascends”; it can also imply moral responsibility (“them they condemned”) or physical burden (“he carried the weight of centuries”); distinguish it from dative constructions, which indicate indirect objects; useful in crafting lines with psychological gravity or tragic consequence.
Also Known As
direct object construction accusative object
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