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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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Persian Tazmin Tradition

Tradition
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 Persian tradition of composing new poetry around, beside, or in response to celebrated lines from an earlier poet.

Detailed Definition
Tazmin involves creative incorporation: a poet may complete a borrowed hemistich, weave a recognized line into a new poem, or answer an earlier composition through formal and thematic echo. The practice treats literary history as an active conversation rather than a closed archive. It rewards knowledge of canonical imagery, meter, rhyme, and rhetorical convention while allowing reinterpretation, parody, devotion, and rivalry. Through tazmin, poets demonstrate both continuity with inherited Persian forms and authority to redirect their meanings for new audiences.
Example
Example in poetry:
Persian tazmin tradition incorporates a line or passage from an earlier poet into a new poem and develops it in a fresh context; a poet may quote a famous hemistich by Hafez and answer it with new lines that extend or reinterpret its meaning; the borrowed words can function as homage, debate, or playful transformation rather than simple repetition; a student could build a tazmin around a remembered line about wine by turning its metaphor toward artistic inspiration
Additional Notes
In Persian poetry, tazmin involves incorporating, echoing, or responding to a memorable line or passage from an earlier poet within a new composition. The borrowed wording may be quoted directly, woven into a new meter, or transformed through changed context and interpretation. Tazmin therefore demonstrates literary dialogue rather than mere imitation. It is related to intertextuality, poetic emulation, allusion, and nazira, the practice of composing a formally or thematically related response to an established poem.
Also Known As
Tazmīn Poetry Tazmin Verse
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