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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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descriptive tag

Device
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 brief identifying phrase or epithet attached to a person, place, or thing.

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Epic Poetry — Epic poetry is not simply a very long poem: it is a flexible tradition of large-scale storytelling, shaped by performance, memory, writing and translation. This guide introduces its conventions, its many cultural histories and practical ways to approach an epic in print or in sound.

Detailed Definition
Repeated descriptive phrases identifying characters, places, or objects in oral-formulaic poetry, aiding memory and creating rhythmic regularity. Homer's "wine-dark sea," "rosy-fingered dawn," and "swift-footed Achilles" exemplify descriptive tags that appear consistently throughout Greek epics. Each character or significant object receives characteristic epithets repeated whenever mentioned. Similar to kennings in Anglo-Saxon verse. These tags served practical function in oral composition and transmission while creating ceremonial, ritualistic quality through repetition. Modern poets sometimes use descriptive tags deliberately to evoke archaic oral traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
Homeric epithets like "wine-dark sea" or "rosy-fingered dawn"; Kennings in Anglo-Saxon poetry; Repeated descriptive phrases identifying characters; Stock descriptive labels in oral-formulaic poetry
Additional Notes
Repeated descriptive phrases identifying characters in oral-formulaic poetry. Homer's "wine-dark sea," "rosy-fingered dawn," and "swift-footed Achilles" are classic examples. Aided memorization in oral tradition. Called kennings in Anglo-Saxon verse. Each character or object has standard descriptive tags repeated throughout the work.
Also Known As
Homeric epithet stock epithet formulaic tag repeated descriptor Epithet
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