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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construct

Craft Terms
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

Construct means to build or form something by combining parts; in poetry, it can suggest the deliberate shaping of a poem’s structure or meaning.

Detailed Definition
Literally, construct refers to making something by planned assembly. In poetry, it is useful when discussing how meter, image, argument, and sound are organized into a coherent whole. It belongs to craft terms because it stresses artful design rather than spontaneous overflow.
Example
Example in poetry:
A sonnet is constructed in fourteen lines with a defined rhyme scheme and volta; A poet constructs an extended metaphor by developing a single image across multiple stanzas; Epic poems are constructed through invocation, catalogue, and escalating conflict; A poet may construct a poem's meaning through careful line breaks that control pacing and emphasis; Formal verse constructs meaning partly through the tension between natural speech and metrical constraint; A poet constructing a villanelle must carefully plan how the two refrains will shift meaning by the final stanza.
Additional Notes
Construct is one of the more explicitly architectural craft terms, emphasizing the deliberate, planned nature of poetic composition, and is often used in discussions of formal verse where the poem's structure is built according to predetermined rules of meter and rhyme; the term invites comparison with more organic craft terms like grow or bloom, highlighting a tension in poetic criticism between poems that feel deliberately built versus those that feel naturally emergent; instructors might use construct to discuss how formalist critics analyze a poem's architecture, examining how individual lines function as structural elements within a larger designed whole.
Also Known As
build erect fabricate assemble create compose
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