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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algorithmic poem

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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 poem generated or structured according to a set of computational or procedural rules

Detailed Definition
An algorithmic poem is a poetic composition generated or structured according to a set of predetermined rules, formulas, or computational processes, often involving mathematical logic, recursive functions, or digital code; such poems may emerge from programming languages or procedural constraints that dictate word choice, line length, rhyme schemes, or thematic progression, exemplifying the intersection of literature and computational creativity, as seen in works by poets like Allison Parrish or early experiments in Oulipo.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem generated by a computer program following strict rules, such as "Taroko Gorge" by Nick Montfort, which uses JavaScript to produce endless variations; A poem created using Markov chains trained on Shakespeare’s sonnets to mimic his style algorithmically; An AI-generated sonnet that follows iambic pentameter and rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG using natural language processing; A procedural poem that rearranges a fixed set of words based on user input or time of day.
Additional Notes
Algorithmic poems are generated using rules, code, or computational processes; they often explore the intersection of language and logic, and students should consider how constraints shape meaning—related to Oulipo techniques and generative literature.
Also Known As
Generative verse Code-driven poem Procedural lyric Computational poetry Code poetry
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