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 F

Frame progression

Device
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 poetic device where recurring framing elements—such as repeated openings or closings—progressively deepen or shift the poem’s meaning.

Detailed Definition
A structural device where repeated framing elements at beginning and end of sections develop or progress rather than simply recurring identically, creating the sense of movement within circular structure. Unlike static frame repetition, progressive frames advance meaning or narrative while maintaining architectural coherence. The frames themselves tell a story or develop an argument, demonstrating transformation while providing structural unity, allowing poets to combine circular and linear movement simultaneously.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” frame progression moves from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise; In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” frame progression links pilgrims’ stories; In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” frame progression nests narratives within letters; In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” frame progression shifts from personal to systemic racism; In Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” frame progression moves from letter to elegy to manifesto; In Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red,” frame progression blends myth, novel, and lyric.
Additional Notes
Repeated framing elements that develop or progress rather than simply recurring. Creates sense of movement within circular structure. The frames themselves tell story or advance argument.
Also Known As
Advancing frame Progressive brackets Developing bookends Moving frame Epanadiplosis Chain
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