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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.

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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Psycholinguistic lyric

Genre
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 lyric poem shaped by theories of psychology and linguistics, exploring consciousness, language acquisition, or the limits of expression.

Detailed Definition
A psycholinguistic lyric is a poem that foregrounds the interplay between cognitive processes and linguistic expression, exploring how thought, memory, perception, or emotion shape and are shaped by language itself; such lyrics often employ fragmented syntax, stream-of-consciousness narration, or recursive self-reference to mirror mental operations—like the hesitation of recall or the slippage of meaning—inviting readers to experience the poem not just as representation but as enactment of inner psychological dynamics, as seen in the work of poets like Gertrude Stein or contemporary neuroaesthetic practitioners.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot blends linguistic hesitation (“Do I dare?”) with cognitive fragmentation as psycholinguistic lyric; Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons” deconstructs object-language relations in psycholinguistic lyric; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine uses second-person address in “Citizen” to trigger reader’s linguistic self-awareness; In “Howl,” Ginsberg’s breath-driven lines mimic thought processes as psycholinguistic lyric; Psycholinguistic lyric in haiku: “wordless— / the crow’s cry / fills the valley.”
Additional Notes
Psycholinguistic lyric explores the intersection of language processing and emotional experience; often fragmented or stream-of-consciousness—draw from cognitive science or dream logic.
Also Known As
Mind-language lyric Psycholinguistic song Mental-speech verse Cognitive-linguistic poem
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