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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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Angled runover

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 visually or rhythmically sharp enjambment across the line break.

Detailed Definition
Angled runover describes enjambment where the line break creates an oblique relationship between the ending and beginning words, neither fully continuous nor completely broken. This produces a slant connection that requires readers to adjust understanding as they move between lines. Angled runover creates complexity through the relationship between line-end positioning and syntactic flow, allowing meanings to shift slightly as the sentence continues, generating semantic richness through the interaction of lineation and syntax.
Example
Example in poetry:
Angled runover occurs when a line break creates syntactic tension that resolves obliquely: “I thought I knew / the shape of grief— / it changed” (hypothetical); in Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange,” enjambment creates Angled runover that subverts expectation; the technique differs from direct enjambment by introducing conceptual rather than grammatical surprise; Angled runover appears in confessional poetry to mirror psychological shifts; it encourages re-reading as meaning unfolds across the break
Additional Notes
Angled runover is an enjambment (run-on line) where the line break is marked by a sudden, unexpected visual or syntactic angle, often using non-standard punctuation or spacing to create an abrupt shift in the poem's flow or meaning.
Also Known As
Slanted runover Angled enjambment Oblique carryover Angular enjambment
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