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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parallel two-line unit

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 couplet constructed to correspond with another two-line verse unit

Detailed Definition
A parallel two-line unit is a couplet or distich structured around systematic correspondence between its component lines, creating balanced relationships through similar syntax, matching imagery, or thematic echoes. This form establishes meaning primarily through the relationship between lines rather than through narrative progression or enjambment. Parallel two-line units may employ synonymous parallelism where the second line restates the first, antithetical parallelism where lines contrast, or synthetic parallelism where the second line completes or extends the first, demonstrating how correspondence creates semantic depth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Parallel two-line unit: “The sun rises. / The moon sets.”; Biblical poetry: “As the hart pants for water, / so my soul longs for you”; A modern example: “She builds walls. / He plants gardens.”; Parallelism creates balance, contrast, or reinforcement; Common in proverbs, prayers, and didactic verse.
Additional Notes
A parallel two-line unit features lines with matching grammatical structure, rhythm, or imagery—emphasizes symmetry and is a building block in many traditional poetic forms.
Also Known As
Parallel distich Mirrored couplet Reciprocal two-liner Echoed pair Correlative couplet
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