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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 tercet

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 three-line stanza in which sounds, words, or phrases are repeated or mirrored for echoic effect

Detailed Definition
An echoing tercet is a three-line stanza that employs repetition, mirrored syntax, or sonic recurrence to reinforce a central image or emotion; often used in sequences, each tercet may echo the last through shared end-words or refrains, building cumulative intensity while maintaining lyrical economy and structural cohesion across a longer poem.
Example
Example in poetry:
An echoing tercet repeats a sound or phrase from the first line in the third, as in Dante’s terza rima: “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, / ché la diritta via era smarrita”; In Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind,” echoing tercets link stanzas: “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being… / Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing”; Another: “The river flows through the sleeping town— / silver under moonlight, cold and deep— / flows through the town, never slowing down”
Additional Notes
Echoing tercet uses repetition or mirrored syntax across its three lines to reinforce a central image or emotion; often appears in sequences where each tercet echoes the last, building cumulative intensity.
Also Known As
Resonant triplet Refraining tercet Reverberant three-line stanza echo triplet Reverberating tercet
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