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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Musical language

Sound
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

Poetic diction that emphasizes euphony, cadence, and sonic texture—through alliteration, assonance, and rhythm—to create musical expressiveness.

Detailed Definition
Musical language in poetry refers to the deliberate orchestration of sound—through meter, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and cadence—to create an auditory experience akin to music; this quality transcends mere euphony to evoke mood, pace, and emotional texture, as in Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle,” where sonic density mirrors the poem’s fierce resistance to death through rhythmic insistence and vocalic harmony.
Example
Example in poetry:
Musical language: Hopkins’ sprung rhythm in “The Windhover”—“dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon”; Langston Hughes’ jazz-inflected lines in “The Weary Blues”; A contemporary poem using internal rhyme and syncopation to mimic hip-hop; Musical language prioritizes sound—rhythm, pitch, timbre—over literal meaning; It invites oral performance and auditory pleasure.
Additional Notes
Musical language emphasizes rhythm, assonance, and euphony over semantic density. Related to melodious quality and ornate rhythm. Read aloud during revision—smooth cadence should enhance, not mask, emotional or intellectual content.
Also Known As
Lyrical diction Harmonious speech Songlike phrasing Euphony
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