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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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Hypozeuxis

Rhetorical Devices
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 pattern in which each clause has its own separate subject and verb. It creates strong balance and measured progression.

Detailed Definition
Hypozeuxis gives successive clauses independent grammatical structures, often producing a deliberate, stepwise rhythm. A poet may write, “The river rises, the marsh darkens, the heron lifts, the village waits.” Each clause stands firmly on its own, yet the series builds a larger scene or argument. The device can convey order, ceremony, accumulating tension, or a sense that several forces are moving simultaneously. Its balanced construction is especially effective in formal and descriptive verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The rain strikes the roof, the wind bends the trees, the thunder shakes the windows” gives each parallel clause its own verb; “She carried the water, he mended the fence, they watched the road” builds balanced independent clauses; “The moon rose over hills, the owls called from pines, the river moved through reeds” creates a measured series; “I will keep the lamp, you will guard the door, we will wait for morning” uses repeated clause structure
Additional Notes
Hypozeuxis gives each clause its own subject and verb, producing a series of complete, parallel statements. This structure can make a poem sound deliberate, balanced, and resolute: “The river rises. The fields darken. The birds depart.” Contrast it with zeugma, in which one word governs multiple parts. Hypozeuxis works especially well for catalogues, contrasts, and climactic progression.
Other Meanings of “Hypozeuxis”
Also Known As
Parallel Clause Structure Balanced Clauses Grammatical Parallelism Isocolonic Arrangement
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