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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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

echoing sonnet

Form
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 sonnet that uses repetition or mirrored phrasing to create an echoing effect

Detailed Definition
An echoing sonnet repeats key words, phrases, or structural motifs from its opening in its closing lines to create sonic and thematic resonance; unlike the traditional sonnet’s argument-driven volta, it emphasizes circularity, memory, or unresolved emotion, using echo as a formal principle to suggest haunting, obsession, or the inescapability of the past.
Example
Example in poetry:
An echoing sonnet repeats key words or phrases in the final couplet to resonate with earlier lines, as in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73: “This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, / To love that well which thou must leave ere long”; In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All,” the couplet echoes the poem’s refrain: “Yet many a man is making friends with death / Even as I speak, for lack of love alone”; Another echoing sonnet: “The night returns, as it always does— / and with it, the ache that never was”
Additional Notes
Echoing sonnet repeats key words, phrases, or structural motifs from earlier lines in later ones to create resonance; differs from traditional sonnet by prioritizing sonic or thematic echo over volta-driven argument.
Also Known As
Resonant sonnet Refracted sonnet Mirrored sonnet Echo sonnet Echo-structured sonnet Reverberating sonnet
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