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.

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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point of view

Rhetorical Devices
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

Point of view is the perspective from which a poem’s speaker presents events, thoughts, feelings, or observations.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, point of view determines who is speaking and how readers receive the poem’s subject. A poem may use first person (“I”), second person (“you”), or third person (“he,” “she,” “they”), and the speaker may or may not be the poet. Point of view shapes tone, intimacy, reliability, and the amount of information available to the reader.
Example
Example in poetry:
In William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” the first-person point of view places readers directly within the speaker’s experience: “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills” The use of “I” makes the description feel personal, presenting the daffodils through the speaker’s individual memory and emotion.
Additional Notes
First-person point of view uses “I” or “we” and often creates a direct, personal effect. Second-person point of view addresses “you,” drawing readers in or speaking to a particular person, object, or idea. Third-person point of view describes a person or subject from outside, using pronouns such as “he,” “she,” “it,” or “they.” The speaker is a constructed voice in the poem and should not automatically be assumed to be the poet. Point of view is closely related to speaker, persona, voice, and dramatic monologue.
Also Known As
Perspective Narrative Viewpoint Narrative Stance Angle of Vision
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