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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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Alphabetic villanelle

Form
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 variant of the villanelle constrained by the alphabetical order of line initials

Detailed Definition
Alphabetic villanelle is a nineteen-line poem that maintains the villanelle's strict repetition pattern while adding the constraint that lines or stanzas begin with successive letters of the alphabet. This demanding form requires managing the villanelle's two refrains and intricate rhyme scheme while incorporating alphabetic progression. The combination of these structural elements creates exceptional difficulty, as the poet must satisfy the villanelle's repetitive requirements while advancing through the alphabet systematically.
Example
Example in poetry:
A day ends, full glory has its joy. Keeps leaving, my new one, please quiet restless souls. The untamed vigor, wild xeric yearning zeal. A day ends. Keeps leaving, my new one. The untamed vigor. A day ends, full glory has its joy. (A villanelle with alphabetical first words).
Additional Notes
Alphabetic villanelle is a highly constrained villanelle (19-line form with two repeating rhymes and two repeating lines) where the alphabet dictates the beginning of lines or stanzas in addition to the standard formal rules.
Also Known As
Abecedarian villanelle Alphabetic refrain form Letter-order villanelle ABC villanelle Acrostic Villanelle
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