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

Home › Glossary › Letter D

divided verse unit

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 stanza intentionally split into two distinct parts—by space, indentation, or thematic shift—to create contrast, dialogue, or structural tension.

Detailed Definition
A divided verse unit is a metrical or stanzaic segment that is internally partitioned—by caesura, indentation, or typography—to highlight contrast or dialogue within a single formal block; this micro-division allows poets to stage competing ideas or voices without breaking stanzaic continuity, enriching textual density.
Example
Example in poetry:
In M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!,” each vertical column functions as a divided verse unit of silenced voices; In Layli Long Soldier’s “Whereas,” indented and justified text form divided verse units of refusal; In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” image and text create divided verse units of racial experience; In Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother,” photographs and lyric form divided verse units of memory; In Jen Bervin’s “Nets,” erasure and original text form divided verse units of palimpsest.
Additional Notes
divided verse unit: Any segment of a poem (line, stanza, section) that is clearly separated into two distinct components, often for the purpose of presenting a contrast or opposition.
Also Known As
Split unit divided grouping fragmented unit fractured structure Bipartite stanza compartmentalized verse unit forked verse unit
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