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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

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Partial sonnet

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

Poem using some but not all characteristics of traditional sonnet structure

Detailed Definition
Partial sonnet: A poem employing some but not all sonnet conventions, such as fourteen-line length without traditional rhyme scheme or sonnet rhyme scheme without standard length. Partial sonnets engage with sonnet tradition while claiming freedom from strict adherence. This approach demonstrates how poets negotiate between tradition and innovation, maintaining connection to established forms while asserting individual expression. Understanding partial sonnets reveals how forms evolve through modification and how contemporary poets balance tradition's authority with experimental impulses, neither wholly accepting nor rejecting inherited structures.
Example
Example in poetry:
Partial sonnet: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is not all” uses sonnet form but subverts volta; contemporary poet Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnets” often truncate or fragment the form; W.H. Auden’s “Sonnet” (“The poet’s whisper…”) condenses sonnet elements into 12 lines; partial sonnets retain rhyme, meter, or structure while omitting components; they signal engagement with tradition through deliberate incompleteness; common in modernist and postmodern poetry.
Additional Notes
Partial sonnet contains fewer than the traditional 14 lines while maintaining sonnet-like characteristics in meter, rhyme, or theme. This abbreviated form suggests sonnet conventions without full commitment to length.
Also Known As
fragmentary sonnet broken sonnet incomplete sonnet Fragment sonnet Truncated sonnet
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