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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Composition

Art
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

The arrangement of elements within a work of art. In poetry, composition concerns how images, sounds, lines, and ideas are organized.

Detailed Definition
Composition is the deliberate ordering of visual, verbal, and structural elements so that a work guides attention and produces meaning. In poetry, it includes stanza shape, sequence, pacing, repetition, white space, image placement, and shifts in voice. Discussing composition helps readers see that a poem's effect arises not only from what it says, but also from the relationships it creates among its parts across the page and through time.
Example
Example in poetry:
Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” composes its description by moving from the fish’s exterior details to the speaker’s emotional recognition; A poet can compose a sonnet so the turning point arrives when the visual perspective shifts from a painting’s foreground to its horizon; In “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” William Carlos Williams arranges attention around plowing, sailing, and spring, making Icarus’s fall deliberately small; A poem about a still life can use composition by placing a bright apple, a shadowed bottle, and an empty chair in an order that guides the reader’s eye
Additional Notes
Composition in poetry is the deliberate placement and sequencing of parts: stanza breaks, shifts in voice, recurring images, and turns in argument. Ask how the order affects meaning. A poem may compose experience chronologically, associatively, or through juxtaposition, much as a painting directs the eye.
Also Known As
Artistic Composition Pictorial Composition Typesetting Drafting
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