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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Ideogramic stanza

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 stanza visually structured to resemble ideograms, using spatial arrangement to convey meaning beyond the verbal.

Detailed Definition
An ideogram stanza is a poetic unit structured according to Ezra Pound’s ideogrammic method, where discrete images or phrases are juxtaposed without explicit connective grammar to generate complex meaning through inference; inspired by Chinese characters, such stanzas rely on visual and conceptual collision—e.g., placing “rain” next to “war” to imply sorrow or chaos—trusting the reader to synthesize the implied idea.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ezra Pound’s ideogramic stanza in “Canto I” juxtaposes Homer, sea, and sacrifice without explicit connection; ideogramic stanza uses visual/logical juxtaposition to imply meaning; modern example: Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” places image and text ideogramically; this technique derives from Chinese characters and haiku; it avoids exposition for intuitive grasp; ideogramic stanza is central to modernist poetics.

Pound’s “Canto I” opens with a Homeric invocation rendered through ideogrammatic juxtaposition; H.D.’s “Helen” uses classical references as visual-emotive blocks; Williams’ “Paterson” weaves historical documents and sensory images into ideogram stanzas; Chinese-inspired poems by Rexroth use stanza-as-ideogram technique.
Additional Notes
Ideogramic stanza uses visual arrangement or symbolic layout to convey meaning beyond words; inspired by Chinese characters or concrete poetry—design stanza shape to reflect content.

An ideogram stanza functions like a Chinese ideogram—condensing complex ideas into a visual-symbolic unit; inspired by Ezra Pound’s adaptation of logographic principles to Western poetry.
Also Known As
Picture stanza Visual verse unit Image-based form Ideogram stanza Ideogrammic stanza logogram stanza symbolic image stanza condensed-meaning stanza
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