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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Epistolary tercet

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 three-line stanza crafted as a fragment of correspondence, often conveying personal emotion or narrative through epistolary convention.

Detailed Definition
Epistolary tercet is a three-line stanza structured as a fragment of a letter, often using intimate address, personal detail, and conversational tone; it merges epistolary conventions with tercet form to create immediacy and emotional directness.
Example
Example in poetry:
Epistolary tercets appear in Ovid’s “Heroides,” where heroines write in verse letters; Modern example: “Your silence echoes in this room— / I trace your name in dust— / When will you come home?”; Claudia Rankine uses epistolary tercets addressing “you” in “Citizen”; The tercet form allows unfolding address.
Additional Notes
Three-line poem in letter form. Rare—tercets brief for epistolary. May use address in first line. Related: epistolary verse, tercet forms.
Also Known As
Letter tercet Epistolary triplet Correspondence three-liner Written tristich three-line epistle correspondence tercet
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