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

Home › Glossary › Letter L

List style

Device
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 poetic technique that structures content as a catalog or series of items, often building rhythm, emphasis, or cumulative emotional impact through listing.

Detailed Definition
The technique of organizing poetry through lists or enumerations, where sequential presentation becomes the primary structural device. This ancient method appears in Homer, the Bible, Whitman, and contemporary poets, creating meaning through accumulation and ordering. List style can be straightforward enumeration or complex meditation using sequential structure as framework, with the listing itself revealing priorities, relationships, and conceptual organization underlying the surface content.
Example
Example in poetry:
List style accumulates items to build rhythm or theme: Walt Whitman’s catalogs: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume…”; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”: “who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up…”; Contemporary example: “Coffee, bus tickets, unpaid bills, your last text”; In Biblical poetry: “Three things are too wonderful for me…” (Proverbs 30); Such style creates democratic inclusivity or overwhelming excess; It can evoke abundance, chaos, or inventory.
Additional Notes
Using lists as organizational principle for poetry. The list form can be straightforward enumeration or complex meditation. Modern technique popularized by Whitman, now common in contemporary poetry.
Also Known As
List technique Catalogue style Enumeration method Inventory approach Epic catalogue
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