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

Chronogrammatic line

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 line containing embedded numerals via letters (e.g., Roman numerals)

Detailed Definition
A chronogrammatic line embeds numerals—often via letters with numerical values (e.g., Roman numerals)—within its wording to encode a specific date or year, typically used in epitaphs, dedications, or commemorative poems where temporal precision is symbolically or historically significant.
Example
Example in poetry:
“My Day of Birth: MDCCLXXVI” – chronogram where letters spell 1776; In Latin epitaphs: “In ChrIstVs nataLIs” = 1666 (I=1, V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100, D=500, M=1000); Modern example: “LIVe free or DVCk” = 1555; Chronogrammatic line in Renaissance poetry encodes dates via Roman numerals in text; “CIVIL WAR” = 1151 – used in commemorative verse.
Additional Notes
Poetic line encoding date through Roman numeral letter values or other chronographic systems. Functions as both verse and temporal record. Related to acrostic but serves calendrical rather than name-revealing purpose.
Also Known As
Date-coded line chronogram verse time-encoded line numerical date line
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