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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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Copyfitting

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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 adjustment of text to fit a planned space on a page. It may involve changing type, spacing, or line breaks.

Detailed Definition
Copyfitting is the practical work of making text occupy a specified amount of space without sacrificing readability or design. A compositor may alter type size, leading, word spacing, or the number of lines to make copy fit a page or column. In a poetry collection, copyfitting requires particular care: unlike prose, a poem's line endings and white space are often part of its meaning. A responsible designer avoids treating verse merely as expandable text and consults the poet when changes affect lineation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Copyfitting is the process of adjusting text so a poem fits the available space without damaging its form; An editor copyfits a poem by moving its title slightly rather than changing the poet’s essential line breaks; If a long poem overruns one page by two lines, copyfitting might involve revising margins or leading; Good copyfitting preserves a villanelle’s repeated lines and stanza structure while meeting the book’s page design
Additional Notes
Copyfitting is the technical craft of calculating and adjusting text density to fit within designated spatial constraints on a printed page. For poetry editors and typographers, copyfitting poses unique challenges because poetical lineation (line breaks and stanzas) cannot usually be re-wrapped like prose without altering the work's rhythm and meaning. When a poem must fit a single page or face an adjacent illustration, copyfitters manipulate font size, tracking, leading, or margins rather than altering the author's words. Studying copyfitting helps students appreciate the spatial tensions between a poet's aesthetic intention and the physical medium of the book. Related terms include leading, kerning, tracking, and widow/orphan.
Also Known As
Copy Fitting
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