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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Effictio

Rhetorical Devices
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

Effictio is a vivid description of a person's physical appearance, especially the face, body, clothing, or bearing. It creates a recognizable visual portrait through selected details.

Detailed Definition
Effictio is a rhetorical portrait that describes outward features in enough detail to make a person appear before the reader's imagination. Unlike a broad account of character, it emphasizes visible traits such as complexion, stature, hair, clothing, scars, gestures, and expression. Poets use effictio to individualize a beloved, hero, enemy, or speaker and to make an abstract emotion take bodily form. The chosen details can also imply social position, moral judgment, vulnerability, age, or power, so physical description becomes a means of characterization and symbolic meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Her hair was black as a raven’s wing, and her eyes were gray and watchful”; “The poem sketches the captain: scarred cheek, weathered hands, and a coat bright with brass”; “A child appears with freckled nose, torn sleeve, and muddy boots”; “The king is pictured with pale brow, jeweled crown, and trembling lips”
Additional Notes
Effictio uses selected physical details to imply inner life, social role, age, power, or mood. Rather than cataloguing every feature, choose details that carry symbolic or emotional weight: a rigid collar, ink-stained fingers, or an averted gaze. It is a form of descriptive characterization.
Also Known As
Physical Description Portraiture Description of Appearance
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