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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Chain-couplet stanza

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

A stanza form where couplets are linked by rhyme or theme across stanzas

Detailed Definition
A chain-couplet stanza is a poetic structure in which rhymed couplets are linked across stanzas through a recurring rhyme sound, image, or motif—such as AABB CCDD where the D-rhyme echoes or responds to the B-rhyme—creating a sense of forward momentum while maintaining the closure of individual couplets. This technique appears in Augustan poetry (e.g., Alexander Pope) and modern narrative verse, where it supports logical progression, accumulation of argument, or thematic development. The “chain” can be purely sonic (rhyme linkage) or semantic (recurring symbol), and it encourages readers to perceive connections across stanzaic boundaries, blending episodic clarity with continuous flow.
Example
Example in poetry:
Love is a flame that burns unseen, / Yet warms the coldest heart; / And though it fades, its light remains, / A lasting, healing art. / The night may fall with heavy shade, / But dawn will rise anew; / For hope endures though shadows creep, / And dreams will carry through; The sea rolls in with steady sound, / A rhythm old and deep; / It sings of ships long lost at sea, / And treasures sunk in sleep. / Yet sailors still set out to sea, / With courage in their breast; / For every wave that breaks ashore / Brings something to the test
Additional Notes
A chain-couplet stanza links couplets across stanzas by carrying a rhyme or image from one to the next (e.g., AABB CCDD where D echoes B). This creates forward momentum while maintaining couplet closure. Found in Augustan poetry (e.g., Pope) and modern narrative verse. The “chain” can be sonic (rhyme) or semantic (recurring motif). Students should analyze how the linkage affects pacing and thematic development—does it suggest inevitability, accumulation, or circularity?
Also Known As
linked couplet sequence interlocking rhyming pairs consecutive couplet chain abababcc stanza
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