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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

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Concluding section

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

The final portion of a poem that provides resolution, reflection, or emotional landing, often distinguished by tone, rhythm, or imagery shift.

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The Sestina — A sestina is built from six end-words that return in a changing order across six stanzas and a brief closing envoi. Its pattern can look daunting on paper, but it is best understood as an audible cycle: familiar words arriving in new emotional and grammatical surroundings.

Detailed Definition
The final portion of a poem, which may encompass multiple stanzas or an extended passage, providing structural and thematic completion. Broader than simply a closing stanza, the concluding section often exhibits shifts in tone, perspective, or imagery that signal approaching resolution. It brings together or resolves themes introduced earlier, creating a sense of formal and intellectual closure to the entire work.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Milton’s “Lycidas,” the pastoral elegy concludes with transcendent resolution; In Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” the concluding section reflects on memory and moral growth; In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” the final stanza enacts symbolic murder and rebirth; In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” the concluding section merges personal and historical reckoning; In Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong,” the concluding section offers self-forgiveness through lyrical address.
Additional Notes
Broader than "closing stanza" - may encompass multiple stanzas or extended passages. Often marked by shift in tone, perspective, or imagery. Provides structural completion to the work.
Also Known As
Final section Terminal passage Ending portion Closure Epode Final stanza
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