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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Problem-solving approach

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

A critical or poetic method focused on resolving structural or thematic challenges

Detailed Definition
The Scholastic period in poetry refers to the medieval era (roughly 12th–14th centuries) when verse was deeply intertwined with theological, philosophical, and logical inquiry, often composed in Latin by clerics and scholars; characterized by allegory, didacticism, and intricate formal structures (e.g., Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy or the works of Alan of Lille), Scholastic poetry sought to reconcile faith with reason through disciplined linguistic artistry.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost uses a problem-solving approach to explore decision-making through metaphor; In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats resolves aesthetic paradox through questioning; Contemporary poet Tracy K. Smith uses scientific inquiry as problem-solving approach in “My God, It’s Full of Stars”; In “Sonnet 18,” Shakespeare solves mortality through poetic immortality; Problem-solving approach in haiku: “Wilted flower— / place in water— / revives at dawn.”
Additional Notes
Problem-solving approach structures a poem as inquiry and resolution. Related to rhetorical Q&A and thought revision. Common in meditative verse—track how form mirrors cognitive process from doubt to clarity or acceptance.
Also Known As
Analytical approach Resolution method Poetic problem-solving Heuristic
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