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 C

Callback device

Device
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 rhetorical device where a later line or image echoes or references an earlier element, reinforcing motifs, themes, or structural cohesion within the poem.

Detailed Definition
A call-back device is a poetic technique in which a word, image, or phrase from an earlier part of the poem is reintroduced later to create resonance, closure, or ironic revision; this structural echo functions like a musical motif or narrative callback in comedy, rewarding attentive readers with a sense of cohesion or layered meaning, and is particularly effective in long poems or sequences where memory and recurrence become central themes.
Example
Example in poetry:
“In rap music, a phrase is introduced and later referenced to create cohesion, like ‘You know the name, now hear the game.’”; “A poem repeats an earlier phrase or image near the end to link thematic elements, serving as a callback.”

Call-back device: A later line echoing an earlier phrase to create resonance—e.g., in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this…” recalls the poem’s opening theme of immortality.
Additional Notes
A recurrent motif, phrase, or image that appears later in a poem, referencing or echoing an earlier part; The device creates unity, emphasizes a theme, or signals a return to a starting point; Related to leitmotif and repetition.

Reference to earlier line, phrase, or image later in poem. Creates internal echo. Related: anaphora, repetition, motif. See also: borrowed refrain. Builds structure through recurrence without exact repetition.
Also Known As
recall device echo device responsive callback Call-back device returning reference echo technique backward reference
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