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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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cyclical chorus

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 choral refrain that returns in cycles, reinforcing the poem’s rhythm or theme

Detailed Definition
A cyclical chorus is a recurring stanza or refrain in a poem that returns at regular intervals with slight modifications, reflecting evolving emotional or narrative contexts while maintaining structural unity; unlike static refrains, the cyclical chorus accumulates meaning through each iteration, as in Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” where the repeated plea gains intensity and complexity with each stanza’s new example of resistance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Greek choruses in tragedy repeat stanzas with slight variation to mark emotional shifts; In "Antigone," the chorus cycles through odes reflecting on fate and law; Shakespeare’s "Henry V" uses the Chorus to frame acts cyclically; In modern adaptations like Walcott’s "Omeros," the sea chorus returns to anchor narrative cycles; Traditional African praise poems use cyclical choruses to honor ancestors repeatedly.
Additional Notes
A cyclical chorus refers to a recurring choral passage in a long poem or verse drama that marks temporal or thematic cycles—seasons, rituals, historical patterns—often echoing Greek tragedy or medieval mystery plays. It provides structural anchoring and communal commentary. In modern poetry, it may appear as a repeated stanza with slight variations (e.g., in Walcott’s “Omeros”). Distinguish from “responsive chorus” by its emphasis on recurrence rather than dialogue.
Also Known As
Repeating chorus Circular refrain Cyclical strophe Rotational choral line recurring chorus returning chorus
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