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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Hyperbolic triplet

Form
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 triplet employing exaggeration or intense emphasis for dramatic poetic impact

Detailed Definition
Hyperbolic triplet is a tercet that employs deliberate exaggeration (hyperbole) across all three lines to amplify emotion, critique, or absurdity; often used in satire or confessional poetry, it builds intensity through cumulative overstatement—“I’ve waited centuries, crossed oceans, died a thousand deaths”—using the triplet’s compact structure to concentrate rhetorical force and create memorable, heightened expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” ends with hyperbolic triplet: “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare”; Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” uses triplet hyperbole: “beds of roses,” “coral clasps,” “amber studs”; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” climaxes with hyperbolic triplet: “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through”; Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—” uses triplet intensity: “And now We roam in Sovereign Woods— / And now We hunt the Doe— / And every time I speak for Him”; Contemporary poet Terrance Hayes exaggerates in triplet: “I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison, / Part panic closet, part music box”; John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” mocks with hyperbolic triplet: “She’s all states, and all princes, I.”
Additional Notes
Hyperbolic triplet uses three lines of exaggerated claims for comic or emphatic effect. Related to invective dimeter and rhetorical poem. Balance overstatement with specificity—vivid details make hyperbole feel earned, not hollow.
Also Known As
Exaggerated triplet Hyperbolic triad Inflated tercet Emphatic three-line stanza Hyperbolic haiku
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