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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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Plot introduction

Structure
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 initial section of a narrative poem that presents the story’s premise and characters

Detailed Definition
Plot introduction in narrative poetry is the opening section that establishes key elements—characters, setting, conflict, or stakes—necessary for the unfolding story, often using exposition, dramatic incipit, or in medias res techniques to engage the reader; unlike prose, poetic plot introductions must balance narrative clarity with lyrical density, as in the invocation of the Muse in Homer’s Iliad or the stark opening of Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (“It is an ancient Mariner…”), where economy of language and rhythmic urgency immediately immerse the audience in the tale’s moral and imaginative world.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Odyssey,” Homer’s invocation “Sing in me, Muse…” serves as a mythic plot introduction; In “Paradise Lost,” Milton opens with “Of Man’s first disobedience…” to frame theological stakes; Contemporary poet Danez Smith begins “summer, somewhere” with “the boys are jumping off the roof again” to introduce a world of Black joy and peril; Shakespeare’s sonnets often open with a rhetorical question (“Shall I compare thee…”) as plot introduction; In “Howl,” Ginsberg’s “I saw the best minds…” instantly establishes generational trauma as plot.
Additional Notes
Plot introduction establishes narrative premise in verse storytelling. Related to story setup and narrative background. Prioritize intrigue over exposition—provide just enough to orient, then propel forward with action or voice.
Also Known As
Prologue Narrative beginning Opening scene Plot outset Exposition
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