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 N

numerical 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

Verse organized around numerical patterns, mathematical sequences, or arithmetic logic, often used to impose order or explore conceptual abstraction.

Detailed Definition
Numeric verse is poetry that integrates numerical patterns, sequences, or constraints into its structure—such as syllable counts based on prime numbers, Fibonacci sequences, or stanza lengths mirroring mathematical constants—using arithmetic logic as both formal scaffold and thematic element to explore order, chaos, or cognition.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem written entirely in binary code or another non-standard numerical base; A lyric where the rhythm is determined by a mathematical formula; A poem whose theme is the nature or philosophy of numbers; A work where the total word count or syllable count is a power of 2;

Numeric verse encodes numbers into structure or content: “One sun, two hands, three crows on a wire— / four years lost, five breaths, six lies I admire.”
Additional Notes
numerical verse: A broad term for poetry where mathematical or numerical concepts dictate the structure (e.g., syllable count, line length), form (e.g., following a geometric shape), or content.

Numeric verse incorporates numbers as structural or thematic element. Can count syllables explicitly, use mathematical patterns, or make numbers subject. Related to Oulipo constraints. Study for experimental approaches to form.
Also Known As
numeric verse number poetry mathematical lyric Arithmetical verse Gematric verse Number verse Mathematical poetry Digit poem Numeric verse
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