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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Prose Villanelle

Form
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 villanelle written in prose paragraphs while preserving refrain and rhyme logic

Detailed Definition
Prose Villanelle is an innovative hybrid form that adapts the strict repetitive structure of the traditional villanelle—specifically its two refrains and alternating rhyme scheme—into prose paragraphs rather than verse lines, preserving the obsessive, cyclical quality of the original while subverting metrical expectations; this form exploits the tension between poetic constraint and prose fluidity to explore themes of memory, trauma, or fixation, as the refrains return with accumulating weight in a seemingly unstructured narrative space, challenging genre boundaries and readerly assumptions about form and content.
Example
Example in poetry:
Prose Villanelle by contemporary poet: five prose paragraphs with repeating refrains “I return to the river” and “The river returns to me”; Another: “Every morning I forget you. Every evening I remember.” woven through narrative blocks; Prose Villanelle in experimental journals mimics villanelle’s obsession through cyclical prose motifs
Additional Notes
Villanelle written in prose paragraphs rather than stanzas. Maintains refrains and circular structure. Experimental form testing villanelle essence. Study how repetition functions in prose.
Also Known As
Prose villanelle form Paragraph nineteen-liner Block villanelle Non-lined villanelle
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