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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Art Nouveau

Art
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 decorative art style known for flowing lines, plant forms, and elegant ornament. In poetry, it can suggest lush visual patterning and organic movement.

Detailed Definition
Art Nouveau flourished around the turn of the twentieth century and is recognized by sinuous curves, floral motifs, asymmetry, and the fusion of art with design. Poets may evoke its atmosphere through elaborate imagery, winding sentence structures, botanical symbolism, or page layouts that imitate vines and waves. The style can lend a poem sensual richness while also exploring the tension between natural forms and cultivated ornament.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem influenced by Art Nouveau might use flowing lines, flowers, vines, birds, and decorative feminine figures in its imagery; Algernon Charles Swinburne's lush rhythms and sensual natural imagery can help students imagine the ornamental mood associated with Art Nouveau; A poet could shape a poem's lines into curling stems and describe irises, peacocks, and stained glass in an elegant visual design; The repeated, sinuous sounds in a poem about a lily-covered pond can imitate Art Nouveau's graceful curves
Additional Notes
Art Nouveau’s curling lines and botanical motifs can inspire sinuous syntax, floral imagery, and decorative sound patterns. Compare its lushness with modernist restraint.
Also Known As
Jugendstil Modern Style Liberty Style Stile Liberty Modernismo
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