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 P

Parallelism

Technique
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

The repetition of similar grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses to create rhythm and emphasis.

Detailed Definition
Parallelism is a rhetorical and poetic device where similar ideas are expressed in parallel grammatical constructions, enhancing rhythm, balance, and memorability; it appears in biblical psalms, Hebrew poetry, and modern verse like Walt Whitman's to underscore themes of equality, contrast, or progression, fostering a sense of harmony and reinforcing oral traditions in literature.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman's catalogs in "Song of Myself" use extensive parallelism to create democratic inclusiveness; Biblical Psalms employ parallelism where second line intensifies or completes first line's thought; Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech demonstrates rhetorical power of parallel structures; Parallel syntax in poetry creates rhythm, emphasis, and sense of building momentum; Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno" uses ritualistic parallelism beginning lines with "For" or "Let"; Parallelism at multiple levels from sound to syntax creates formal cohesion and memorable phrasing
Additional Notes
Parallelism employs repeated grammatical structures across successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create rhythmic emphasis, rhetorical power, and structural coherence. This ancient technique appears throughout biblical poetry, classical rhetoric, and oral traditions worldwide. Parallelism can be syntactic (repeating sentence structures), semantic (expressing similar meanings through different words), or phonetic (repeating sound patterns). Hebrew poetry's parallel couplets present the same idea twice in varied language, as in Psalms. Whitman's long catalogs employ anaphoric parallelism, beginning successive lines identically to create accumulative force. The technique serves multiple functions: emphasis through repetition, rhythmic drive, ease of memorization, rhetorical persuasion, and structural scaffolding in free verse. Understanding degrees of parallelism—from exact repetition to loose structural echo—helps students analyze how poets build momentum and meaning. Parallelism can create expectations that poets fulfill or violate for effect. Students should note what changes across parallel structures—variations reveal emphasis and development. The technique demonstrates how syntactic choices create musical and rhetorical effects beyond semantic content alone.
Other Meanings of “Parallelism”
Also Known As
Parallel Structure Parallel Construction Isocolon Parallel syntactic parallelism
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