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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

Epilogue

Technique
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 concluding section after the main narrative, offering reflection, resolution, or commentary.

Detailed Definition
Epilogues, post-climax in verse dramas like Shakespeare's, provide closure or moral insight; they appear to tie loose ends, comment on events, or project forward, extending thematic resonance beyond the poem's core.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare's Sonnet 126 serves as epilogue to the Fair Youth sequence, addressing Time directly; Chaucer provides epilogue to Troilus and Criseyde retracting worldly concerns for Christian perspective; An epilogue might reveal the speaker's current position years after events described in poem; Robert Browning's "The Ring and the Book" includes multiple epilogues from different perspectives; Epilogues can address readers directly about the poem's composition or reception; A narrative poem's epilogue might fast-forward to show long-term consequences of earlier actions
Additional Notes
The epilogue functions as a concluding frame that steps outside the main narrative to offer reflection, resolution, commentary, or even questioning of what preceded it. Unlike conclusions that emerge organically from the narrative, epilogues create formal separation—a distinct after-space where poets can address readers directly, reveal outcomes beyond the narrative's temporal frame, or provide interpretive guidance. Shakespeare's sonnets to the epilogue tradition influence how poets use this space: sometimes for apology, sometimes for dedication, sometimes for metapoetic reflection on the work itself. The epilogue can provide closure the main poem resists or deliberately unsettle apparent resolutions. Contemporary poets may use epilogues ironically, undermining their traditional stabilizing function. When teaching epilogues, help students distinguish them from conclusions—epilogues frame rather than culminate, creating distance that allows new perspective. The technique raises questions about where poems truly end and how framing devices shape interpretation. Students should consider whether the epilogue confirms or complicates the main text, and what it reveals about the poet's relationship to their material.
Also Known As
Afterword Postscript Coda Peroration
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