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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Narrativeallage

Concept
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 coined term for shifts in narrative stance or voice that reassign the story’s centre to a new protagonist or perspective mid-poem.

Detailed Definition
Narrativeallage is a rhetorical blend of narrative and enallage—grammatical disagreement used for expressive effect—where shifts in person, tense, or number within a story create psychological tension or thematic dissonance; for example, a third-person tale suddenly shifting to “you” implicates the reader, or past tense lapsing into present enacts traumatic immediacy, making grammar a vehicle for narrative disruption and emotional authenticity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Narrativeallage: In Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” Daphne’s transformation into a laurel tree shifts narrative perspective from pursuit to rooted stillness; Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” uses narrativeallage when Bottom awakens unaware of his ass’s head; Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” shifts from carriage ride to eternal afterlife; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” toggles between victim and phoenix-like resurrection; Louise Glück’s “Gretel in Darkness” repositions the fairy tale from passive child to traumatized survivor; Ocean Vuong’s “Aubade with Burning City” juxtaposes Saigon’s fall with disco music, altering historical narrative through sensory dissonance.
Additional Notes
Grammatical shift within narrative voice. Technical term combining concepts. Related to enallage. Study tip: Track how verb tense or person shifts affect narrative perspective.
Also Known As
Narrative mixing Story blending Tale combination Plot fusion
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