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.

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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Annotation

Education
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

The practice of adding notes, marks, or questions to a poem while reading. Annotations record observations that can support interpretation and discussion.

Detailed Definition
Annotation helps students read poetry actively rather than passively. Readers may underline repeated words, label sound devices, mark shifts in speaker or tone, define unfamiliar vocabulary, and write questions beside difficult passages. These notes create a visible record of the reader’s developing response and provide evidence for later essays or conversations. In poetry instruction, annotation can make compact or challenging texts more approachable by encouraging readers to slow down and notice how each line participates in the poem’s imagery, argument, rhythm, and emotional movement.
Example
Example in poetry:
Annotate a poem by underlining repeated words and writing notes about how repetition shapes its theme; In the margin of Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” define unfamiliar references and note where the speaker’s mood changes; Annotate Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” by marking the repeated “We” and considering its collective voice; Use symbols while annotating to mark imagery, sound devices, questions, and important turns in the poem
Additional Notes
Useful annotations may underline repeated words, label devices, note shifts, define unfamiliar language, and record questions. They create evidence for later discussion.
Also Known As
Textual Annotation Marginal Annotation Marginalia
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