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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irregular stanzas

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

Stanzas that vary in line count, meter, or rhyme scheme without adhering to a fixed or predictable formal pattern.

Detailed Definition
Irregular stanzas are verse units whose line count or meter varies unpredictably across the poem, breaking conventional form to reflect shifting mood or narrative turns.
Example
Example in poetry:
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” uses irregular stanzas to mirror cultural fragmentation; Emily Dickinson’s poems alternate between quatrains and tercets unpredictably; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” mixes prose blocks, lyric stanzas, and white space; Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” uses irregular stanzas to convey psychological urgency; Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” employs irregular stanzas shaped by grief and memory; Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” uses sprawling, irregular stanzas for democratic inclusivity.
Additional Notes
Irregular stanzas vary in line count, meter, or rhyme within a single poem. Contrast with sealed form. Often reflects emotional or thematic instability—map structural shifts to content to uncover intentional dissonance.
Also Known As
Uneven stanza Free stanza form Irregular section Heterostrophic Unmatched stanzas
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