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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

concise 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 short stanza that conveys its idea with economy and precision, avoiding unnecessary elaboration; in poetry, it achieves compression, clarity, and a sharp, memorable impact through brevity.

Detailed Definition
A concise stanza is a brief, self-contained unit within a poem that delivers a complete thought, image, or emotional gesture with minimal words; it emphasizes clarity, rhythmic cohesion, and thematic focus, often functioning as a building block in larger structures while maintaining its own lyrical integrity and sonic unity.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died,” the four-line stanza “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— / Between the light—and me— / And then the Windows failed—and then / I could not see to see—” is a concise stanza conveying death’s final moment; In haiku form, Bashō’s “Summer grasses— / All that remains / Of soldiers’ dreams” is a concise three-line stanza; In Blake’s “A Poison Tree,” each quatrain is a concise stanza advancing the poem’s moral; In Plath’s “Mirror,” the two stanzas are tightly focused and thematically complete.
Additional Notes
A concise stanza delivers a complete thought or image in few lines (often 2–4); common in epigrammatic or imagist poetry; each stanza should function as a self-contained unit while contributing to the whole.
Also Known As
Tight stanza compact stanza economical stanza minimal stanza Compact triplet Pocket poem
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