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.

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

extended stanza

Structure
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

Stanza longer than traditional forms, often exceeding eight lines

Detailed Definition
extended stanza: Stanzas longer than conventional four- to eight-line units, creating room for complex development, narrative progression, or elaborate exploration within unified stanzaic structures. Extended stanzas can accommodate intricate rhyme schemes, involved syntax, and sustained meditation within single formal units. Examples include Spenserian stanzas and various long stanzaic forms from different traditions. Extended stanzas demonstrate how stanzaic structure can create substantial architectural units that balance unity and complexity, providing space for development while maintaining formal coherence. The form shows stanzas as flexible containers adaptable to various expressive needs.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” uses variable stanzas as extended stanza form; Hart Crane’s “Voyages” uses irregular stanzas for emotional depth; Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” uses prose stanzas as extended form; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” uses block paragraphs as extended stanzas; Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” blends lyric and prose stanzas; contemporary poets like Solmaz Sharif use documentary stanzas as extended form.
Additional Notes
Extended stanza contains more lines than conventional stanza forms, creating expanded rhythmic and thematic units. This allows complex development within single stanzas while maintaining structural unity.
Also Known As
Prolonged stanza Extended verse unit Amplified stanza Augmentative stanza Cantilevered stanza
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