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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Envoi Quatrain

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 four-line closing stanza summarizing or dedicating a longer poem, often with a turn in address

Detailed Definition
An envoi quatrain is a four-line concluding stanza in a poem—often in a ballade or chant royal—that serves as a dedicatory or summarizing coda, traditionally addressing a patron, beloved, or reader with a final plea, blessing, or reflection; characterized by its compressed emotional weight and metrical consistency with the preceding stanzas, the envoi quatrain functions as both farewell and encapsulation, as in Villon’s ballades where the envoi (“Prince, pray for me…”) personalizes the poem’s universal themes, blending intimacy with formal elegance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Envoi Quatrain: a four-line envoy concluding a longer poem, often addressing the reader or patron; In Villon’s “Testament,” the envoi pleads for remembrance; A modern sonnet sequence might end with: “Go now, little poem, find your reader’s heart”; The quatrain summarizes, dedicates, or sends the poem into the world; Traditional rhyme schemes like ABAB lend closure.
Additional Notes
Four-line envoi concluding ballade or other forms. Most common envoi length. Typically begins with address ("Prince..."). Practice identifying how it mirrors or resolves main stanzas.
Also Known As
sending stanza dedicatory quatrain
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