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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.

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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Anacoluthon

Rhetorical Devices
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

Anacoluthon is a deliberate break or shift in a sentence’s expected grammatical structure. It can imitate interruption, emotional pressure, or a speaker changing course mid-thought.

Detailed Definition
Anacoluthon occurs when a sentence begins in one syntactic pattern but abandons it for another, leaving the original construction unresolved. Although it may resemble an error, poets often employ it purposefully to represent spontaneous speech, agitation, hesitation, or thoughts too complex to be neatly ordered. The disruption can make a voice feel immediate and human, especially in dramatic monologue or free verse. By refusing smooth grammatical completion, anacoluthon also draws attention to silence, fracture, and the limits of what a speaker can say.
Example
Example in poetry:
“If only I could—when the bell rang, the poem ended” breaks off from its expected syntax; “The birds, when dawn—no, listen, the rain begins” abandons one construction for another; “What I meant to say was that the sea, but never mind” leaves the sentence grammatically unfinished; “She promised that if the leaves returned, then—” interrupts the thought before completion
Additional Notes
Anacoluthon disrupts syntax after a sentence has begun, often revealing a mind under pressure or a voice changing direction. A poet may use it to imitate spontaneous speech, hesitation, or emotional fracture. Because it can resemble an accidental error, the surrounding rhythm and context should make the break feel purposeful.
Other Meanings of “Anacoluthon”
Also Known As
Syntactic Break Grammatical Discontinuity Broken Construction
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