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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Patterning

Craft Terms
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

Patterning is the intentional recurrence and variation of elements across a poem.

Detailed Definition
Patterning includes repeated sounds, images, grammatical shapes, line lengths, colors, gestures, or conceptual oppositions. Repetition gives the reader a way to recognize continuity, while variation reveals development or resistance. A pattern may operate below conscious notice, creating expectation before a deliberate break brings it forward. In a poem about inheritance, recurring family phrases can gradually change meaning as the speaker tests them. Strong patterning is felt as relation, not merely counted as decoration.
Example
Example in poetry:
Patterning arranges recurring sounds, images, syntax, or forms so that readers perceive relationships; In “The Tyger,” William Blake uses repeated questions and phrases to create strong patterning; A poet may pattern a sequence around the recurring images of water, glass, and light; Alternating long and short lines is a form of visual and rhythmic patterning
Additional Notes
Patterning is the use of recurrence with change across a poem. A pattern may involve sound, syntax, imagery, line length, stanza shape, or a sequence of actions. Repetition establishes expectation, while variation gives the expectation meaning and prevents monotony. Track patterns visually or by reading aloud, then ask whether they reinforce the poem’s movement. Related concepts include motif, refrain, parallelism, and form.
Also Known As
Motif Design Marking
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