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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additive verse

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 form of verse that develops by adding repeated or incremental lines over time

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Repetition in Poetry — Repetition is one of poetry’s most flexible ways of making language memorable. It can establish a beat, return us to an idea, sharpen an argument or make the same words mean differently each time they come back.

Ballad — Ballads tell memorable stories in a compact, musical form. Rooted in oral tradition but endlessly reshaped on the printed page, they use rhythm, repetition and dramatic scenes to make narratives travel.

Detailed Definition
Poetry structured through accumulation and addition rather than substitution or development, where each new element supplements rather than replaces previous elements. This compositional method creates layered, accretive texts where meaning emerges from gathering rather than progression. Common in list poems, catalogs, and certain experimental forms, additive verse mirrors thought processes of accumulation and association. The structure resists hierarchical organization, treating each added element as potentially equal in importance to previous elements.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” uses additive verse by accumulating parallel phrases without strict meter; César Vallejo’s “Trilce” employs additive structures through syntactic repetition and expansion; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine builds additive verse in “Citizen” by layering testimonies and observations; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” exemplifies additive verse through anaphoric cascades and breath-driven accumulation; Denise Levertov’s “The Jacob’s Ladder” uses additive phrasing to mirror spiritual ascent.
Additional Notes
Additive verse builds meaning through accumulation of phrases or images without subordination (e.g., parataxis); common in Whitmanesque free verse and oral traditions.
Also Known As
Cumulative verse Additive composition Layered poetry Incremental repetition Incremental stanza paratactic verse Supplementary verse
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