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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

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Intensifying stanza

Structure
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 verse unit that builds in force, emphasis, or emotional power, often through accumulating syntax, intensifying imagery, or increasing line length; it creates a crescendo effect that heightens poetic impact.

Detailed Definition
An intensifying stanza is a verse unit specifically designed to heighten the emotional force, thematic urgency, or rhetorical power established in preceding stanzas, functioning as a point of escalation within the poem's overall structure. These stanzas employ compressed imagery, heightened language, increased metrical stress, or rhetorical amplification to raise the poem's intensity level. Intensifying stanzas serve as architectural focal points that organize the emotional trajectory of a work, demonstrating how individual verse units can have distinct structural functions within larger compositional designs.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” uses intensifying stanza culminating in “Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz”; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” intensifies stanza from resurrection to revenge; Contemporary poet Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” intensifies stanza from self-doubt to self-love; Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” intensifies stanza through repeated “And miles to go”; W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” intensifies stanza from falcon’s flight to beast’s birth; Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” intensifies stanza from vulnerability to triumph.
Additional Notes
An Intensifying stanza increases emotional or sonic force within its bounds—may use climax, accumulation, or rhythmic compression to heighten impact.
Also Known As
Amplifying stanza Crescendo strophe Intensified verse block Building poetic unit Crescendo stanza
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