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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I 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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Epanadiplosis Chain

Device
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

Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning and end of successive clauses.

Detailed Definition
Epanadiplosis Chain is a rhetorical structure where the end of one line or clause repeats the beginning of the next, creating a linked, cyclical progression (e.g., “love breeds hope / hope feeds despair”); this technique builds momentum and thematic resonance through recursive verbal patterning.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Catullus 64, epanadiplosis chain appears: “Aeneas... Aeneas” framing mythic narrative; Shakespeare’s “Richard II”: “This earth... this earth” to emphasize loss; modern example: Claudia Rankine repeats “you” at start and end of sections in “Citizen” for structural echo; epanadiplosis chain repeats a word/phrase at beginning and end of successive clauses; it creates rhythmic insistence and thematic circling; this device reinforces obsession or inevitability.
Additional Notes
Epanadiplosis Chain: Repetition of the same word both at the end and beginning of successive clauses or lines, creating a circular rhythm and strong cohesion.
Also Known As
Repetition chain Bookend sequence Frame progression Cyclical repetition series
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