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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

Emphasis

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

Special stress given to a word, phrase, or idea. It directs attention toward a point the speaker wants readers to notice.

Explore this topic in depth (1)

Sound Devices in Poetry — Sound devices are the patterns of speech that make a poem memorable to the ear as well as meaningful on the page. This guide explains how to hear alliteration, assonance, consonance and other effects, and how to describe what they do without reducing sound to a checklist.

Detailed Definition
Emphasis is created through placement, repetition, contrast, syntax, sound, or unusually forceful diction. A poet may isolate a word at the end of a line, repeat it at key moments, or place it against quieter surrounding language. The device need not be loud; a small word can gain great weight when strategically positioned. In lyric poetry, emphasis often reveals what the speaker cannot stop thinking about, whether it is a name, an absence, a promise, or a fear.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Never shall I forgive the flame” gives emphasis through the forceful opening word; “This, this is the hour the bells were waiting for” stresses the moment through repetition; “I loved you—only you—when the city went dark” isolates a phrase for emotional weight; “At last, the river answered” places the important revelation at the line’s end
Additional Notes
Emphasis directs a reader’s attention to a crucial word, image, or claim. Poets can create it through repetition, placement at the beginning or end of a line, contrast, italics, short sentences, sound, or interruption. When analyzing emphasis, ask what the poem makes unusually noticeable and why that point matters to its tone or argument.
Other Meanings of “Emphasis”
Also Known As
Significatio Stress
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