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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parody verse

Genre
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

Parody verse humorously imitates the style, tone, or conventions of another poet, genre, or work to critique, celebrate, or satirize its features.

Detailed Definition
Parody verse is poetry that imitates the style, form, or content of another work or genre for humorous, satirical, or critical purposes; by exaggerating conventions or subverting expectations, parody verse exposes clichés, critiques authority, or celebrates intertextuality, ranging from light-hearted lampoon to sharp cultural commentary.
Example
Example in poetry:
Verse that mimics the style, structure, or themes of a famous poet or poem for humorous or critical effect; A poem written in the style of Shakespeare but with modern, mundane subject matter; A mocking imitation of a well-known epic poem, reducing its grand scale to a trivial event; A poem that copies the meter and rhyme scheme of a Romantic ode but uses sarcastic or cynical language.
Additional Notes
parody verse: Poetry that mimics the style, tone, or specific works of another poet or genre for comedic or critical effect; students can use it to hone their understanding of a particular style.
Also Known As
satirical verse burlesque poem mock poem Burlesque mock verse
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