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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palindromic 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

A rhyme formed by words or syllables that read the same forwards and backwards.

Detailed Definition
Palindrome rhyme occurs when the rhyming words or syllables read the same backward as forward (e.g., "level" / "level" or "deed" / "deed"), creating a mirrored sonic effect; while rare, this technique emphasizes symmetry, fate, or cyclical return, often used in constrained or conceptual poetry to reinforce thematic reflections on time, identity, or linguistic play.
Example
Example in poetry:
In palindromic rhyme, words like “live” and “evil” reverse to form rhyming pairs; The phrase “step on no pets” uses palindromic rhyme through full reversal; In experimental poetry, “stressed” and “desserts” serve as palindromic rhymes; Poets like J. A. Lindon craft lines where end words mirror phonetically: “name” / “eman” (though rare in English, the concept is demonstrated through near-reversals).

A rhyme scheme that reads the same forward and backward, like A B C C B A in a six-line stanza; A poem where the rhyme of the first line matches the last, the second matches the second-to-last, and so on; The sequence of rhyming sounds in a poem forming a mirror image, like A B C C B A D E E D; A rhyme pattern that follows a chiasmic, or inverted, structure.
Additional Notes
Palindromic rhyme uses words that reverse to form rhymes (e.g., “live”/“evil”); rare in English but conceptually rich; more common in visual or conceptual poetry than traditional forms.

palindrome rhyme: A type of rhyme scheme or pattern that reads the same forwards and backwards, mirroring its structure (e.g., A B C C B A); related to Palindromic design.
Also Known As
Reversal rhyme mirror rhyme backward rhyme anacyclic rhyme palindrome rhyme reversible rhyme Catoptric rhyme
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