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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ornate 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

A decorative enjambment style filled with flourish and embellishment.

Detailed Definition
Ornate enjambment occurs when a syntactically complex or rhetorically heightened phrase spills over a line break with elaborate phrasing, delaying resolution to create suspense, emphasis, or baroque density, often in contrast to the clean cuts of plain enjambment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Running a line over a page break with excessive, often flowery, descriptive language, like: "The moon, that pearlescent / Orb of night, with silver / Light did grace the ancient / Tower's stony spire."; A two-line unit where the first line ends on a heavily modified noun, forcing a long pause before the elaborate adjectives complete the thought in the next line; Enjambment that suspends the main verb until the second line, which is filled with multiple, complex modifiers; A poetic phrase that spans a line break, with the fragment on the second line being a highly decorative, non-essential clause.
Additional Notes
ornate enjambment: The technique of running a line over into the next (enjambment) in a way that uses highly decorative, complex, or unusual phrasing to span the break, drawing attention to the sophistication of the transition.
Also Known As
decorative enjambment elaborate run-on ornate overflow Baroque enjambment elaborate line-break
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