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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Parallelism

Rhetorical Devices
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

Parallelism repeats a grammatical pattern in nearby words, phrases, or clauses. It links ideas through similar structure and creates rhythm, balance, or emphasis.

Detailed Definition
Parallelism places related thoughts in matching or comparable syntactic forms, such as a series of verbs, phrases, or clauses built on the same pattern. The repetition of structure makes connections visible: ideas may reinforce one another, develop in sequence, or stand in sharp contrast. Poets use parallelism to organize complex feeling, establish chant-like music, and give a passage rhetorical momentum. Because readers can anticipate the returning form, parallelism makes language memorable while allowing subtle changes in meaning to carry special force.
Example
Example in poetry:
“I will rise at dawn, I will walk at dawn, I will sing at dawn,” repeating a grammatical structure; “The river carries leaves, the river carries boats, the river carries dreams,” aligning clauses; “To forgive is to heal, to remember is to learn, to hope is to begin,” using parallel infinitive phrases; “She feared the night, she feared the sea, she feared herself,” repeating syntax to build intensity
Additional Notes
Parallelism can organize a poem’s argument and make repeated ideas easier to hear and remember. Repeated structure need not mean repeated wording; variation within a pattern can create development or surprise.
Other Meanings of “Parallelism”
Also Known As
Syntactic Parallelism Balanced Structure Grammatical Repetition Parallel Construction
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