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

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Framework

Craft Terms
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 framework is the underlying arrangement that supports a poem’s images, voice, argument, and movement.

Detailed Definition
The framework includes the poem’s sequence of attention, stanza logic, narrative arc, governing question, and distribution of emphasis. It may be visible through formal pattern or nearly hidden beneath a conversational surface. Strong imagery cannot compensate indefinitely for a weak framework, because the reader eventually needs a sense of relation and direction. During revision, a poet may map each section’s function, then move, combine, or remove passages until the poem’s supporting structure carries its full imaginative load.
Example
Example in poetry:
A framework is the structural design that supports a poem, such as stanzas, meter, rhyme, or a repeated refrain; A villanelle’s recurring lines provide a framework in which changing context alters the meaning of each repetition; A poet may build a sequence around the framework of a house, moving from foundation to attic as the poem develops; In free verse, recurring images and syntactic patterns can serve as an invisible framework even without regular meter
Additional Notes
A framework is the poem’s supporting design, whether visible as stanzas and sections or felt through recurring images, a narrative arc, a question, or a pattern of return. It helps organize voice, pacing, evidence, and emotional movement so that individual lines contribute to a larger experience. Framework can be strict, as in a sonnet or villanelle, or flexible, as in a sequence of fragments. During revision, map the poem’s turns and ask where tension rises or stalls. Related concepts include structure, architecture, form, scaffolding, progression, and composition.
Also Known As
Structure Scaffolding Architecture edifice Scaffold Structural frame
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