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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.

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

Home › Glossary › Letter I

Imposition

Printing
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

The arrangement of pages on a printing sheet before it is folded and bound. It ensures pages appear in the correct order.

Detailed Definition
Imposition is the planning and placement of pages on a press sheet so that, after printing, folding, trimming, and binding, they read in the intended sequence. A poem may appear upside down or far from its neighboring page on the flat sheet, yet emerge correctly in the finished book. Poetry printers must consider imposition alongside page breaks, facing-page relationships, illustrations, and blank pages, since these features can affect how a sequence is encountered.
Example
Example in poetry:
Imposition is the planning of how pages are arranged on a printing sheet so they appear in the correct order after folding and trimming; For a sixteen-page poetry chapbook, imposition may place page 16 beside page 1 on the same side of a sheet; A poet making a handmade booklet must check imposition before printing or the pages may emerge out of sequence; Blank pages can be included in an imposition plan so that a poem begins on a right-hand page
Additional Notes
Imposition places pages in a seemingly unusual order on a large sheet so that folding produces the correct reading sequence. It is essential when preparing signatures for book printing.
Also Known As
Page Imposition
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