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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

Five-verse segment

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

A section of five lines functioning as part of a multi-stanza composition

Detailed Definition
Five-verse segment: A section or unit of five lines treated as a meaningful division within a longer poem. The five-verse segment functions as a building block that may repeat, vary, or contrast with other sections, creating architectural structure through consistent five-line units that organize the poem's development and allow for measurable progression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 opens with a five-verse segment establishing despair: “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state…”; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” the poem’s structure hinges on five-verse segments that echo jazz phrasing; Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” expands into a five-line meditation in later drafts; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” uses five-verse segments to frame microaggressions as lyrical units; Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo” begins with a descriptive five-verse segment that sets up revelation; In Louise Glück’s “Mock Orange,” the first five lines establish emotional tension through botanical metaphor.
Additional Notes
A five-line section within a longer poem, which may or may not function as a complete stanza. Analyze its structural and thematic role.
Also Known As
Quintet section Five-line unit Pentad segment Pentatonic division Demi-decade stanza
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