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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 L

Line break

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

The point at which a poetic line ends, often used to control rhythm, meaning, or reader expectation through enjambment or pause.

Explore this topic in depth (4)

How to Compare Poems — Comparing poems is not a matter of making two separate lists. It is a way of seeing how poems ask related questions in distinct voices, shapes and sounds—and of discovering what each poem makes newly visible in the other.

Enjambment and Line Breaks — A line break is more than a piece of page layout: it can interrupt, propel, delay or transform a phrase. This guide explains enjambment, end-stopping and the expressive possibilities of poetic lineation in reading, performance and musical settings.

Onomatopoeia in Poetry — Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose sound suggests the noise, movement, or sensation they describe. In poetry, it can make a scene audible, shape a line’s rhythm, and connect a poem’s language to the physical world.

Imagism — Imagism was an early twentieth-century Anglo-American poetic movement that made clarity, compression and musical rhythm into a programme. Its poems ask readers to attend closely: a few concrete details, carefully arranged, can carry perception, feeling and thought.

Detailed Definition
Line break is the point at which a poet ends one line and begins another, a crucial formal decision that shapes rhythm, emphasis, and meaning; enjambment (breaking mid-phrase) creates fluidity and surprise, while end-stopped lines offer closure, making lineation a primary tool of poetic craft.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” uses line break before “Blue” to create suspense; William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” breaks after “so much depends / upon” to emphasize dependency; Contemporary poet Ocean Vuong breaks lines mid-word: “be/longing” to split identity; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” uses line break: “I think I may well be a / Jew” to delay revelation; Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” breaks: “And miles to go before I sleep” for rhythmic emphasis; Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” breaks after “We” to isolate collective identity.
Additional Notes
Line break: The point at which a line of poetry ends; crucial for pacing, emphasis, and meaning; enjambment (breaking mid-phrase) creates tension, while end-stopped lines offer closure.
Also Known As
Line ending Verse break Poetic pause End-stop or enjambment rupture
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