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.

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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Analepsis

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

Analepsis is a flashback: a narrative interruption that returns to an earlier event. It supplies background, revises present understanding, or deepens emotional context.

Detailed Definition
Analepsis, commonly called flashback, shifts a poem or narrative from its current moment to an earlier time. The recalled event may explain a speaker's grief, reveal the origin of an image, or complicate what readers first believed about the present. In poetry, analepsis can imitate the workings of memory, where past scenes intrude suddenly upon perception. By placing earlier experience beside the current moment, poets create temporal depth and show how identity, desire, trauma, or longing is shaped by what has already occurred.
Example
Example in poetry:
“As I watched the old house burn, I remembered the summer we painted its doors” moves from the present into an earlier event; In Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” the speaker recalls visiting the landscape five years earlier; “The veteran touches the medal and sees again the winter battle” uses memory to return to the past; “At her mother’s grave, she recalled the lullaby sung in childhood” inserts a past scene into the present narrative
Additional Notes
Analepsis alters narrative time by returning from the present action to an earlier event. A flashback can explain motive, complicate memory, or create contrast between past and present selves. Signal the shift clearly through tense, scene detail, or framing voice so readers can follow the poem’s temporal movement.
Other Meanings of “Analepsis”
Also Known As
Flashback Retrospection Narrative Recall
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