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. 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.

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

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Epistrophic Rhyme

Rhyme
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

Repeated use of a rhyme at the end of successive lines or stanzas.

Detailed Definition
Epistrophic Rhyme is the repetition of identical end-words or sounds at the close of successive lines or clauses (e.g., “time after time / crime after crime”), creating rhythmic insistence and emotional emphasis; distinct from simple rhyme, it functions as a rhetorical and sonic intensifier.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” uses epistrophic rhyme: “weep—weep—weep”; Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” repeats “I’ve known rivers” with varied end-sounds creating epistrophic effect; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” uses anaphora more than rhyme, but “Moloch!” refrains create epistrophic rhythm; Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” ends each line with “We” creating epistrophic rhyme; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” repeats “you do not do” with shifting rhymes; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” uses repeated “you” constructions as epistrophic device.
Additional Notes
Epistrophic Rhyme: Repeated rhyme sound at the ends of clauses or stanzas, mirroring epistrophe; creates closure and emphatic effect.
Also Known As
End-word rhyme Terminal repetition Closing echo pattern Final word sound
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