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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Plot binding

Concept
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

The entanglement or intensification of narrative threads creating dramatic tension

Detailed Definition
Plot binding: The structural elements that tie narrative strands together in story-based poetry, creating coherence through causality, thematic connection, or temporal relationship. Plot binding ensures that disparate events or elements contribute to unified development rather than remaining episodic or disconnected, providing the organizational logic that transforms sequence into meaningful narrative.
Example
Example in poetry:
In epic poetry like “Beowulf,” plot binding occurs through repeated phrases (“the ring-giver”) that tether narrative threads; In “The Canterbury Tales,” Chaucer binds disparate tales through the pilgrimage frame; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine uses recurring motifs (tennis, waiting rooms) as plot binding in “Citizen”; In “Paradise Lost,” Milton binds cosmic and human plots through Satan’s journey; A sonnet sequence like Shakespeare’s uses thematic echoes (“time,” “beauty”) as subtle plot binding across 154 poems.
Additional Notes
The structural element that ties plot elements together, creating cohesion in narrative poetry. Examine how complications and resolutions connect.
Also Known As
Plot cohesion Narrative integration Story weaving Structural connection Desis
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