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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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Amplification

Device
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 technique of expanding or elaborating a thought through repetition, detail, or variation

Detailed Definition
Amplificatio is a rhetorical and poetic strategy involving the deliberate expansion or elaboration of a thought through repetition, accumulation, or detailed description to heighten emotional impact or emphasize significance; originating in classical oratory, it appears in poetry as extended metaphors, cataloging, or syntactic parallelism—such as in Milton’s invocations—where a single idea is magnified through layered expression without redundancy.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare amplifies grief in Hamlet: “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / Make up my sum”; Milton’s Paradise Lost amplifies Satan’s fall: “Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky”; In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats amplifies sensory experience: “Tasting of Flora and the country green, / Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!”; Whitman’s “Song of Myself” uses amplification to encompass multitudes: “I contain multitudes”; In John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Book I, Satan’s speech is amplified through extended metaphors and rhetorical elaboration to heighten his tragic grandeur; Modern example: “Her sorrow wasn’t just tears—it was oceans, earthquakes, collapsed stars.”

Shakespeare’s “Richard II” uses amplificatio in the garden scene: “Go bind thou up yon dangling apricots…” where pruning becomes metaphor for kingship; Cicero’s rhetorical style, echoed in Milton’s “Lycidas,” expands grief through layered pastoral imagery; In “Paradise Lost,” Milton elaborates Satan’s fall with repeated epithets and extended similes; Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover” amplifies a falcon’s flight into spiritual revelation through dense description.
Additional Notes
A rhetorical device expanding a statement with details, examples, or repetitions to enhance emotional or persuasive impact; in poetry, used to deepen imagery or emphasize a theme—related to auxesis and dilation; (Amplificatio) Galician verse form—dawn song variant. Woman laments lover's departure at daybreak. Similar to aubade but distinct cultural tradition. Part of Galician-Portuguese medieval lyric.

Amplificatio is a rhetorical technique that expands or elaborates an idea through repetition, synonyms, or detailed description to heighten emotional or persuasive effect; common in classical oratory and Baroque poetry.
Other Meanings of “Amplification”
Also Known As
Expansion Elaboration Amplificatio accumulation Addition Dilation exaggeration Overstatement Exergasia rhetorical amplification ornate expansion verbal augmentation Amplification technique Conceit Amplification Auxesis
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