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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Nodal enjambment

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

Enjambment that creates a network of syntactic nodes across a poem rather than single linear continuations.

Detailed Definition
Nodal enjambment is a strategic line break that occurs at a syntactic or semantic pivot point—such as between subject and verb or before a crucial modifier—creating maximum tension and anticipation; unlike casual enjambment, nodal breaks heighten drama and focus, as in “I saw / God,” where the break isolates the object of vision, making the lineation itself a tool of revelation and rhetorical power.
Example
Example in poetry:
Nodal enjambment: “The river bends— / not here but where the willows weep” creates a pivot point; Bishop’s “One Art” uses enjambment to delay emotional impact; Hip-hop lyrics employ nodal breaks for rhythmic surprise; Nodes mark thematic shifts in epic poetry
Additional Notes
Enjambment at crucial meaning point (node). Strategic line break. Related to syntactic enjambment. Tip: Identify where break creates maximum suspense or semantic multiplication.
Also Known As
web enjambment interlinked enjambment
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