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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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Address cascade

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 structural technique involving a series of direct addresses (apostrophes) to persons, abstractions, or entities, often for emotional intensity.

Detailed Definition
A series of apostrophes or direct addresses that follow one after another, creating an effect of rapidly shifting attention or escalating urgency. This technique intensifies the vocative mode through multiplication, addressing multiple entities, different aspects of one entity, or the same entity repeatedly with increasing desperation or emphasis. The cascade can create fragmentation, suggesting the speaker's scattered attention, or systematic cataloging of addressees. The form embodies states of emotional intensity or rhetorical performance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” addresses wind, sky, and earth in cascading apostrophes; Whitman’s “Song of Myself” cascades addresses to “you,” “comrade,” “mother,” and “unseen soul”; In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats moves from self to bird to imagined Grecian urn; Contemporary poet Ocean Vuong addresses mother, lover, and war in cascading lyrical gestures; Address cascade builds emotional intensity through layered direct address.
Additional Notes
Address cascade is a sequence of direct addresses (to people, objects, or abstractions) that build emotional intensity or expand the poem’s scope; effective in odes and invocations.
Also Known As
Vocative sequence Direct address cascade Calling line series Apostrophic cascade
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