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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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Altered five-liner

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 five-line poem deviating from standard structures like the limerick

Detailed Definition
Altered five-liner describes any five-line poetic stanza that deviates from conventional forms like the limerick or quintain through changes in meter, rhyme scheme, line length, or syntactic structure; such alterations may serve expressive purposes, such as disrupting rhythmic predictability to mirror psychological states, or reconfiguring traditional patterns to reflect modern sensibilities, making it a versatile vehicle for innovation within constrained form.
Example
Example in poetry:
A five-line poem with irregular meter but AABBA rhyme: "The moon glows soft above the hill (A) / The wind whispers secrets, hushed and still (A) / A fox darts through the trees (B) / Stirring night’s mysteries (B) / And time bends to nature’s will (A)"; A humorous altered quintain: "My coffee’s gone cold once again (A) / My toast is burnt—what a pain! (A) / The cat stole my socks (B) / And mocked me with mocks (B) / I need a vacation—amen! (A)"
Additional Notes
Altered five-liners allow poets to retain the quintain’s brevity while experimenting with form—try varying line lengths or breaking rhyme to express psychological complexity or social critique.
Also Known As
Modified quintain Irregular five-liner Free-form quintet Deviant stanza Limerick variant
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