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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Prosopopoeia

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

Prosopopoeia is a figure that gives voice, character, or speech to an absent, dead, imaginary, or nonhuman being. It allows the speaker to present that being as if it were a person speaking or present.

Detailed Definition
Prosopopoeia, sometimes called person-making, creates a speaking presence from something unable to speak in ordinary life. A poet may let a dead ancestor answer, make a city tell its history, or allow an abstraction such as Justice to argue its case. Unlike simple personification, it often involves a sustained voice or imagined speech rather than a single human trait. Poets use it to stage debate, preserve memory, explore hidden perspectives, and make moral or historical forces vivid through dramatic embodiment.
Example
Example in poetry:
“O Death, where is thy sting?” gives Death a voice-like human presence; “The moon whispered, ‘Come home, lost sailor’” makes the moon speak; “Justice stood at the courthouse door and wept” embodies an abstraction as a human figure; “The abandoned house said, ‘Remember me’” lets an inanimate object address the reader
Additional Notes
Prosopopoeia is more specific than ordinary personification because it gives an entity an actual voice or speaking presence. A dead ancestor, a city, a season, or an abstract force such as Justice may address the reader directly. The device can dramatize inner conflict and broaden a poem’s perspective. Apostrophe often accompanies it when the speaker addresses the absent or nonhuman figure.
Other Meanings of “Prosopopoeia”
Also Known As
Rhetorical Personation Voice-Giving Feigned Speaker Personified Address
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