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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

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Exergasia

Rhetorical Devices
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

The repeated reworking of one idea in different expressions. It develops a thought through variation rather than simple repetition.

Detailed Definition
Exergasia restates a central idea in multiple forms, each version adding a fresh emphasis, image, or emotional color. A poet might describe freedom as breath, open sky, unlocked doors, and an unafraid voice. Though the subject remains the same, the language continually renews it. This device can enrich praise, intensify lament, and make an abstraction more concrete. It differs from redundancy because every rephrasing contributes a distinct perspective to the developing thought.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The city wakes in smoke, in sirens, in the pale shiver of windows” develops the idea of waking through several images; “Her absence was a locked door, an unlit lamp, a chair facing no one” reworks one feeling through varied metaphors; “The storm was a drum above us, a whip in the trees, a hand shaking the house” expands one description in multiple forms; “Freedom is a bird uncaged, a road unbarred, a breath drawn fully” elaborates the central idea through fresh phrasing
Additional Notes
Exergasia develops one central idea by restating it in varied language, images, syntax, or examples. Each version should add a new shade of meaning rather than merely repeat the same words. Poets may use it to intensify praise, accusation, grief, or argument. It overlaps with commoratio, but exergasia particularly stresses rhetorical reworking and elaboration.
Other Meanings of “Exergasia”
Also Known As
Expolitio Elaboration
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