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 O

Overflow line

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 line of poetry that continues without pause into the next line, often defying syntactic or rhythmic expectations

Detailed Definition
An overflow line is a poetic line that exceeds conventional metrical or syntactic boundaries, spilling into the next line through enjambment to create momentum, surprise, or emphasis; this technique disrupts expected pauses, heightening tension or mimicking thought’s fluidity, as when a grammatical unit continues beyond a line break to delay resolution or reorient meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
Enjambment carrying meaning past the line break, as in William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow”: “so much depends / upon”; In “Birches” by Frost: “I’d like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over”; Whitman’s “Song of Myself”: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume”; Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool”: “We / Jazz June”
Additional Notes
An overflow line (enjambment) continues syntax beyond the line break to create momentum, surprise, or emphasis; vary with end-stopped lines to control pacing and tension.
Also Known As
Run-On Line Enjambed Extension Spillover Verse Continuous Line asymmetric overflow Hypermetric line
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