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

Partial verse

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

Partial verse refers to intentionally or circumstantially incomplete poetry—fragments, drafts, or unfinished lines—that evoke absence, loss, or potential.

Detailed Definition
Partial verse refers to an incomplete or truncated line of poetry that deliberately breaks metrical, syntactic, or stanzaic expectations, often used to convey hesitation, interruption, emotional rupture, or thematic fragmentation; unlike enjambment, which flows into the next line, partial verse may stand as a syntactic or rhythmic fragment that challenges closure, as seen in contemporary confessional poetry where fractured lines mirror psychological states or in experimental works that interrogate the boundaries of poetic form itself.
Example
Example in poetry:
Partial verse uses fragmentation as poetic strategy: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”); M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!” erases slave-ship log into shards; contemporary examples include Anne Carson’s “Nox”; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” blends prose and lyric fragments; George Oppen’s Objectivist minimalism.
Additional Notes
A verse that is formally or textually incomplete but maintains cohesion through key recurring lines or structural anchors. Incomplete form can be intentional, inviting the reader to complete or interpret. Related to the unfinished poem and partial song. Contrasts with formally complete verse. Learners should distinguish between planned incompletion (a deliberate artistic choice) and accidental incompletion (an unfinished draft).
Also Known As
Fragmentary verse Incomplete lines Damaged poem Partial composition Fragment poem
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