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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adhesive clause

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 syntactic or semantic clause that links lines or stanzas, enhancing cohesion through repetition, parallelism, or thematic continuity.

Detailed Definition
A subordinate clause that attaches closely to its main clause through meaning or function but maintains potential independence through its grammatical structure. In poetry, adhesive clauses create syntactic fluidity, hovering between independence and dependence, often attached by conjunctions or relative pronouns but carrying enough weight to function separately. This creates syntactic suspense and allows complex idea development while maintaining grammatical coherence. The term emphasizes how clauses stick together while retaining distinct identities.
Example
Example in poetry:
An adhesive clause is a dependent clause that "sticks" closely to the main clause, often without punctuation, creating syntactic tension or fluidity: In John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet XIV,” “Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you / As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend” uses adhesive clauses to fuse divine action with human plea; Emily Dickinson frequently employs adhesive syntax: “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – / The Stillness in the Room / Was like the Stillness in the Air – / Between the Heaves of Storm –” where clauses adhere without conventional pauses; Contemporary poet Jorie Graham writes in “Salmon”: “as if the river / released them not the fish / but the idea of return” — adhesive clauses blur subject and action; In Old English poetry like “Beowulf,” clauses adhere through alliteration rather than punctuation: “Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, / þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon” (“Lo! We have heard of the Spear-Danes’ glory in days of yore”); Modern experimental poet Caroline Bergvall uses adhesive phrasing in “Drift”: “no land in sight only sea talk only wind script” to evoke disorientation; Such clauses often heighten rhythm, urgency, or ambiguity by resisting grammatical separation.
Additional Notes
An adhesive clause is a grammatically dependent phrase that “sticks” to a main clause for added description; in poetry, it can create fluidity or density without full sentences.
Also Known As
Binding clause Adhesive phrase Linking modifier Binding phrase
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