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.

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.

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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highly embellished art

Concept
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

Art or poetry characterized by excessive ornamentation, intricate detail, and lavish stylistic embellishment for dramatic or aesthetic effect.

Detailed Definition
Highly embellished art in poetry refers to a style rich in decorative language, intricate metaphors, and ornamental devices—such as extended conceits, lavish similes, or syntactic inversions—that prioritize aesthetic opulence over plainness; associated with Baroque, Mannerist, or Decadent movements, it seeks to dazzle through verbal virtuosity and sensory overload, often exploring artifice as a theme itself.
Example
Example in poetry:
Highly embellished art uses ornate imagery and syntax: Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (“fair youth, beneath the trees”); Victorian poets like Rossetti employ jewel-toned detail; modern examples include Hart Crane’s “Voyages”; A.E. Stallings’ “Sestina” layers mythological allusion; John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait” uses decorative abstraction.
Additional Notes
Poetry characterized by extremely elaborate diction, complex metaphors, and intricate structures; focuses heavily on aesthetic complexity and artistry over simple, direct communication; related to Gongorism or Marinism.
Also Known As
baroque artistry elaborate ornamentation florid style decorative poetics Baroque
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