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.

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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Palimpsest rhyme

Rhyme
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

Rhyme created by overlaying an earlier rhyme-sound with a new one so that traces of both are audible or felt.

Detailed Definition
Palimpsest rhyme describes a poetic technique wherein a word or phrase echoes another not through immediate sonic similarity but through layered historical, etymological, or semantic resonance that evokes an earlier textual or linguistic trace, functioning like a poetic palimpsest where older meanings shimmer beneath the surface; this concept extends traditional rhyme into the realm of intertextuality and linguistic archaeology, as when a modern poet uses “light” to subtly recall its Old English root “leoht,” thereby enriching the poem with temporal depth and lexical memory.
Example
Example in poetry:
Palimpsest rhyme: In W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” “gift” and “lift” rhyme while carrying layered meanings; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” uses “Jew” and “through” with historical weight beneath sound; contemporary poet Terrance Hayes rhymes “son” and “sun” in “American Sonnets” to evoke racial legacy; palimpsest rhyme combines sonic match with semantic depth; it allows multiple interpretations within single sound pattern; common in politically or historically engaged poetry.
Additional Notes
Rhyme revealing earlier, erased, or overwritten sounds. Modernist technique suggesting layered meanings. Related to palimpsest imagery and manuscript studies.
Also Known As
Layered rhyme Overwritten echo Erased sound Revised-over correspondence
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