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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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Address turn

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 rhetorical shift in address from one figure to another in a poem

Detailed Definition
A shift in the identity of the addressee within a poem, where the speaker redirects their speech from one listener to another. This volta-like pivot can occur between stanzas or within stanzas, creating dramatic effects and revealing new perspectives. Address turns allow poets to explore multiple relationships within single poems, shift from private to public speech, or reveal the speaker's complex social positioning. The technique is common in dramatic monologues and odes with multiple invocations.
Example
Example in poetry:
An Address turn shifts the poem’s focus to directly speak to a person, entity, or abstraction: “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being!” (Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”); “Death, be not proud…” (Donne’s Holy Sonnet X); “America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing” (Ginsberg’s “America”); “O Muse, inspire my faltering tongue” (classical invocation); “Dear Future, I left you a mess—forgive me” (contemporary eco-poem); “Moon, why do you watch me with such cold eyes?” (haiku-inspired lyric).
Additional Notes
Address turn marks a shift in who or what the speaker addresses within a poem (e.g., from lover to God); signals thematic development or emotional pivot.
Also Known As
Turning address Apostrophic turn Vocative shift Apostrophic volta
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