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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Justification

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 alignment of text along one or both page margins. Fully justified text creates straight edges on both sides.

Detailed Definition
Justification describes how lines of type are aligned on a page. Left-justified poetry usually preserves a ragged right edge, while fully justified setting adjusts word spacing so that both margins appear even. Because poems depend on line endings and white space, full justification can sometimes create distracting gaps or alter the visual character of short lines. Printers choose justification with attention to rhythm, readability, and the intended shape of the poem on the page.
Example
Example in poetry:
Justification is the alignment of text to a page margin, especially when spacing is adjusted to make both margins even; A poet may choose left justification for free verse because its uneven right edge preserves a natural visual flow; Full justification can create distracting gaps between words in a narrow poetry column; Centered justification may help a short lyric feel formally balanced, though it can make long lines harder to scan
Additional Notes
Justification controls how lines align with page margins. Left-aligned text usually preserves natural word spacing, while full justification may create uneven gaps, sometimes called rivers, within the text.
Also Known As
Full Justification Justified Setting Rationalization
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