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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Cliometric 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 stanzaic design that organises lines around numerical progression or statistical data.

Detailed Definition
A Cliometric stanza is a rare, conceptual poetic form that integrates quantitative historical analysis—cliometrics being the application of economic and statistical methods to history—into its structure or content, using numerical data, demographic trends, or archival references as poetic material; such stanzas may juxtapose lyrical expression with census figures, trade records, or mortality rates to critique or illuminate sociohistorical narratives, functioning as a hybrid of documentary poetics and econometric inquiry, often found in postmodern or historiographic poetry that seeks to materialize the invisible forces shaping human experience through disciplined, evidence-based verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cliometric stanza uses data poetically: “In 1845, 1 million died— / potatoes black, hope denied”; Rare form blending econometrics and verse; Example: “GDP fell 3%, hearts fell farther” – satirical cliometric stanza; Not traditional; modern experimental poets use statistics as lyrical material; “Unemployment rose: 5%, 7%, 10%— / mothers sold rings, then dreams.”
Additional Notes
Stanza using quantitative historical analysis or data-driven content. Experimental form merging statistical history with poetry. Related to: documentary poetry, found poetry.
Also Known As
data stanza number-stanza
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