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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Apportionment

Structure
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 deliberate distribution of thematic or formal elements across a poem

Detailed Definition
Apportionment in poetry denotes the deliberate distribution of metrical feet, stresses, line lengths, or thematic elements across a stanza or poem to achieve rhythmic balance, structural symmetry, or expressive emphasis; it reflects the poet’s calculated allocation of poetic resources for aesthetic or rhetorical effect.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a sestina, apportionment occurs as six end-words rotate systematically across six stanzas; In a villanelle, apportionment is seen in the repeated distribution of two refrains across nineteen lines; In a pantoum, apportionment appears through the recycling of alternating lines from one stanza to the next; In a rondeau, apportionment governs how a refrain is apportioned at the beginning and end of stanzas
Additional Notes
Apportionment in poetry refers to the deliberate distribution of lines, stanzas, or thematic elements to create balance or tension; it’s a structural technique that can mirror thematic concerns like justice, division, or harmony.
Also Known As
Metrical allotment Rhythmic distribution Stanzaic division Distributio Distribution
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