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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 F

faro

Games
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

Faro is a banking card game in which players bet on the order of appearance of cards from a dealing box.

Detailed Definition
Faro enters poetry as an emblem of the gambling dens and the swift turn of fortune. In nineteenth-century literature it symbolizes the seductive and ruinous nature of pure chance. Poets draw on its layout and the dealing box to illustrate the exposure of fate, the betting against the bank, and the dramatic reversals that mirror life's unpredictable dealings.
Example
Example in poetry:
Faro’s dealing box and layout of suits supply poets with images of rapid and fatal exposure; Nineteenth-century verse places the game at the center of saloon and riverboat risk; “The soda box delivered the cards and the faro bank collected another life” illustrates mechanical chance; Educational poetry shows the sport as pure banking drama; Poets use faro when the night’s fortune must be decided in the open language of the layout.
Additional Notes
Faro’s dealing box and open layout turn the order of the cards into a rapid and public drama of fortune. The game’s nineteenth-century associations allow poets to evoke the saloon, the riverboat, or the urban gaming house. Classroom discussion can usefully contrast faro with slower banking games such as baccarat. Related terms include the soda box and the faro bank. The image rewards attention to the difference between the individual bet and the continuous flow of the deal.
Also Known As
Faro Game Fast Faro Quick Faro
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