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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

Partial song

Form
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 poetic work resembling a song but presented in fragmentary or incomplete fashion

Detailed Definition
Partial song describes a poetic mode that mimics or evokes the qualities of song—melody, refrain, emotional cadence—without constituting a full musical composition, often relying on rhythmic regularity, lyrical diction, and emotive repetition to suggest an absent or implied musicality; this technique is common in ballads, troubadour lyrics, and modern free verse that borrows from folk or pop traditions, such as in the work of Bob Dylan or Tracy K. Smith, where the poem functions as a “song fragment” that resonates with oral and performative heritage.
Example
Example in poetry:
Partial song: Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” mimics hymn meter without full melody; W.B. Yeats’s “The Song of Wandering Aengus” uses refrain-like structure; contemporary poet Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” echoes spiritual call-and-response; partial songs suggest musicality through rhythm and repetition; they often appear in lyric poetry with oral roots; imply performance beyond the page.
Additional Notes
A song that is structurally or textually incomplete—missing verses, interrupted refrains—yet retains its musical qualities. The refrain often anchors a fragmentary structure. Related to the fragment and the partial verse. Contrasts with the complete song cycle. Learners should consider how incompletion in a partial song creates anticipation or melancholy and whether the gaps seem designed or accidental.
Also Known As
Fragmentary song Incomplete chant Half-song Partial melody poem Fragment lyric
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