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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linked verse

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

Poetry where stanzas or lines connect through repeated elements, shared imagery, or continuing themes

Detailed Definition
linked verse: Poetry where successive stanzas, lines, or sections connect through repeated words, images, or sounds, creating continuity across poem's structure. Linked verse includes forms like Japanese renga where poets collaboratively build poems through linked stanzas following specific rules. Linking creates coherence, forward momentum, and thematic development through repetition and connection. The technique appears in various traditions and demonstrates how poetry creates unity through association and recurrence. Understanding linked verse reveals structural principles beyond meter and rhyme, showing how connection and repetition themselves provide organizational frameworks.
Example
Example in poetry:
Japanese renga (linked verse) like those by Bashō and Chikamatsu; Contemporary poet John Ashbery’s “Litany” uses linked verse between two voices; The “Renga for Obama” project linked poets globally in collaborative form; Classical Persian qasida uses linked verse through thematic progression; Modern linked verse by Jane Reichhold and contemporary haiku poets; Diane di Prima’s “Loba” uses linked verse across mythic and personal registers.
Additional Notes
Linked verse connects stanzas or sections through repeated lines, images, or phrases that bridge between units. This technique, prominent in forms like terza rima and renga, creates chain-like continuity.
Also Known As
Renga Linked chain verse Chain poetry Chain verse Concatenated verse Poetic garland Chain Link
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