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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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Aposiopesis

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

Aposiopesis is the sudden breaking off of a sentence before it is completed. The unfinished utterance suggests strong emotion, interruption, or something too dangerous or painful to say.

Detailed Definition
Aposiopesis leaves a statement deliberately incomplete, often marked by a dash, ellipsis, or abrupt change in the line. The missing ending invites readers to imagine what the speaker cannot or will not articulate. In poetry, this device can convey grief, rage, fear, desire, awe, or restraint more forcefully than a finished declaration. It creates a charged pause in the poem’s rhythm and gives silence expressive value. Poets use it to dramatize inner conflict, interruption, censorship, or the failure of language before overwhelming experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
“If you leave me again, I swear I—” breaks off in strong emotion; “The door opened, and there in the storm stood—” suspends the sentence before revelation; “Do not touch that letter, because if you do—” leaves the threat unstated; “I thought the grave would be quiet, but then I heard—” creates fearful interruption
Additional Notes
Aposiopesis leaves speech unfinished, often marked by a dash or trailing punctuation: “If you had only—”. The silence may suggest anger, grief, shock, censorship, or an emotion too strong to articulate. It differs from an ellipsis used simply to omit material; here the interruption itself is the expressive event.
Other Meanings of “Aposiopesis”
Also Known As
Breaking Off Sudden Silence Rhetorical Reticence
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