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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Circular structure

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

Poem that ends where it began, creating sense of completion or return

Detailed Definition
Circular structure: A compositional pattern where a poem's conclusion returns to its opening image, phrase, or situation, creating a sense of completion, enclosure, or cyclical return. This structure can emphasize inevitability, repetition, or the impossibility of escape, or alternatively suggest renewal and continuity. Circular structure appears in various forms including ring composition, where intermediate material is framed by opening and closing parallels. The technique creates satisfying formal closure while potentially complicating linear progression, suggesting that endings contain beginnings and that experience follows cyclical rather than progressive patterns.
Example
Example in poetry:
Circular structure begins and ends at same point: T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” (“In my beginning is my end”); contemporary poems about addiction or grief use circular structure; the form appears in mythic quests returning home; circular structure conveys fate, cycles, or unresolved trauma; it differs from linear narrative by rejecting progress
Additional Notes
Circular structure ends where it began, either by repeating opening lines, returning to initial imagery, or completing a thematic loop. This form creates unity and emphasizes cyclical themes like seasons, life cycles, or eternal return.
Also Known As
ring-like structure cyclical design closed-form pattern looped structure Annular structure circular form Concentric structure
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