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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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balanced sonnet

Form
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 sonnet exhibiting formal or thematic equilibrium between its parts

Detailed Definition
A balanced sonnet maintains formal and thematic equilibrium through symmetrical structure, often dividing evenly between proposition and resolution (e.g., octave and sestet in Petrarchan form) or using mirrored imagery and parallel syntax; this balance creates a sense of harmony and intellectual clarity, reflecting classical ideals of poetic order and rhetorical precision.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) balances thematic development and resolution within its 14 lines; Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is not all” presents a balanced argument and emotional arc in a compact 14-line form; George Meredith’s “Modern Love” sonnets maintain equilibrium between personal grief and formal control; W.H. Auden’s “If I could tell you” uses the 14-line structure to weigh time, love, and uncertainty with formal poise.
Additional Notes
A balanced sonnet achieves equilibrium between argument and resolution, emotion and control, or thesis and antithesis within its 14 lines; often seen in Shakespearean or Petrarchan models; balance doesn’t mean neutrality but formal and thematic harmony.
Also Known As
Harmonious sonnet equipoised sonnet symmetrical sonnet measured sonnet Parallel-opening sonnet Symmetrical fourteen-liner
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