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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Hypophora

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 rhetorical strategy where a speaker poses a question and immediately answers it, guiding the audience’s interpretation or emphasis.

Detailed Definition
Anthypophora is a rhetorical device where a speaker poses a question and immediately answers it, often to address anticipated objections or deepen reflection; in poetry, it creates dialogic tension and introspective momentum, as in meditative or dramatic monologues.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hypophora: A rhetorical question followed by an immediate answer: “What is our life? A play of passion.” — Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage.”

Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “To be, or not to be—that is the question. / Whether ’tis nobler…” poses then answers; Anthypophora builds argument through self-dialogue; Common in sermons and dramatic monologues for rhetorical force; Modern examples appear in Claudia Rankine’s interrogative poetics; This technique stages internal conflict as public discourse.
Additional Notes
Asking question then immediately answering it yourself. "Why do I write? Because I must." Related: rhetorical question, erotesis. Study: hypophora vs. rhetorical question (expects no answer).

Rhetorical question followed immediately by its answer. Teaching device in didactic verse. Compare with erotema (question left unanswered).
Other Meanings of “Hypophora”
Also Known As
Self-answer Question-response Rhetorical Q&A Anthypophora question-and-answer
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