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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Chronological figure

Concept
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 or structural device that organizes content according to time sequence

Detailed Definition
A chronological figure is a rhetorical or structural device that explicitly sequences events or ideas in temporal order within a poem, often using markers like “first,” “then,” “finally,” or seasonal progression; it provides narrative clarity and logical development, commonly used in didactic, biographical, or historical verse to guide the reader through a linear timeline, distinguishing it from cyclical or fragmented temporal approaches.
Example
Example in poetry:
Using "first... then... finally" to structure a poem about aging; A poem listing historical events in strict chronological order; A life narrative moving from birth → childhood → adulthood → death; A seasonal poem progressing from spring to winter; A poem tracing the path of a river from source to sea in sequence
Additional Notes
A chronological figure organizes poetic content in explicit time sequence (e.g., "first... then... finally"); often signaled by temporal adverbs or narrative progression; differs from "chronological structure" by focusing on rhetorical markers rather than overall form; helpful in didactic, biographical, or historical poems; students should examine how linear time shapes argument or emotion versus cyclical or fragmented time; related to "temporal pair" and "chronological shift."
Also Known As
temporal motif time-bound symbol sequential emblem Temporal metaphor Time-based metaphor
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