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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delineate

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

Delineate means to outline or describe with clarity; in poetry, it can suggest the precise shaping of an image, scene, or idea.

Detailed Definition
In literal use, delineate means to draw a boundary or give clear form. In poetry, it is useful for describing how a poet defines contours, distinctions, or relationships through language. It appears in craft terminology because it emphasizes exactness and the making of clear form.
Example
Example in poetry:
A nature poet delineates the exact shape of a leaf or mountain range to ground abstract feeling in precise observation; Marianne Moore delineates animals with scientific precision, blending naturalist detail with poetic form; A poet may delineate a character's features slowly across a dramatic monologue to build psychological portrait; Topographical poems delineate landscape boundaries, often reflecting on ownership or belonging; A poet describing a map might delineate borders to explore themes of division and nationhood; Descriptive poetry delineates light and shadow carefully to create a vivid visual scene.
Additional Notes
Delineate emphasizes clarity and precision of outline, often used in discussions of descriptive or naturalist poetry where a poet renders a scene, object, or character with careful, almost scientific exactness; the term is closely associated with poets like Marianne Moore, whose precise, detailed descriptions of animals and objects exemplify delineation as a craft technique; instructors might contrast delineation with more impressionistic or suggestive descriptive techniques, discussing how the choice between precise outline and evocative vagueness shapes a poem's tone and reader experience.
Also Known As
outline sketch trace draw describe
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