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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Bargeboard

Architecture
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 bargeboard is a decorative board fixed along the sloping edge of a gable. It can evoke embellishment along the edges of a poetic scene.

Detailed Definition
Bargeboards trace the sharp outline of a roof, often carved with foliage, lacework, or symbolic figures. In poetry, they can suggest the way ornament gathers along an exposed boundary: the decorative language surrounding loss, the elaborate detail framing a plain house, or the inherited patterns that make an ordinary dwelling seem storied. They draw attention to edges where shelter meets weather.
Example
Example in poetry:
The poem notices carved bargeboards, the decorative boards along a gable edge, on an abandoned farmhouse; “Rain tapped the bargeboards like fingers on a harp” turns architectural detail into sound; A poet can use ornate bargeboards to suggest the pride and craft of a vanished household; In a gothic poem, bargeboards cut with leaf patterns may resemble dark lace against the moon
Additional Notes
Bargeboards are often elaborately carved features along the sloping edges of gables, particularly in Gothic Revival and vernacular buildings. Their position at the roofline makes them apt for poetic attention to margins, borders, and decorative excess. Use the term when an edge is not merely functional but expressive. It relates to gable, eave, vergeboard, and ornamental trim.
Also Known As
Vergeboard Gable Board
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