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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

Concluding hexastich

Structure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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 concluding six-line stanza that provides thematic closure or resolution, often functioning as a poetic coda or summative turn.

Detailed Definition
A six-line concluding stanza, particularly common in certain ballade variants and Occitan poetry, that serves as an envoy or dedicatory conclusion. The hexastich form provides more space for elaborate dedication or final commentary than shorter envoy forms like the quatrain, while maintaining the concision and focus appropriate to a concluding gesture. This structure allows poets to address recipients, summarize themes, or provide closing meditation with slightly more development than briefer conclusions permit.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the final six lines often resolve or complicate the preceding argument; In John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” the closing hexastich (“Beauty is truth, truth beauty…”) delivers philosophical conclusion; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Children of the Poor,” the last six lines intensify maternal anxiety; In Terrance Hayes’ “American Sonnet,” concluding hexastichs often pivot to political urgency; In Tracy K. Smith’s “The United States Welcomes You,” final six lines deliver bureaucratic threat with chilling brevity.
Additional Notes
Six-line envoy structure. Common in certain ballade variants and Occitan poetry. The hexastich form allows more elaborate dedication or commentary than shorter envoy forms while maintaining concision.
Also Known As
Six-line conclusion Terminal sextet Hexastich envoy Six-line send-off Envoi hexastich Final sextet
Skip to main content