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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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Ornate close

Structure
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 highly decorative or elaborate ending to a poem, marked by rhetorical flourish or symmetry

Detailed Definition
An ornate close is a poem’s concluding lines that deploy heightened diction, intricate syntax, or elaborate imagery to provide a sense of ceremonial or aesthetic culmination; unlike understated endings, the ornate close—seen in Milton’s epic invocations or Baroque lyrics—uses linguistic richness to signal finality, transcendence, or rhetorical triumph, leaving a resonant, often decorative afterimage.
Example
Example in poetry:
Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn" closes ornately: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"; Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ends with elevated couplet; Milton’s "Lycidas" closes with pastoral flourish: "At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue"; Tennyson’s "Ulysses" ends with heroic resolve: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"; Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud" concludes with triumphant paradox.
Additional Notes
An ornate close uses elaborate, syntactically complete final lines—often with elevated diction or rhetorical flourish—to provide satisfying closure (e.g., Shakespearean sonnet couplets). It contrasts with open or fragmented endings. Students should analyze how closure is achieved: resolution, twist, or echo? Related to “poetic closure.”
Also Known As
Ornamental close Decorative ending Flourished finale Embellished conclusion Decorated ending Decorated finale
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