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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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Pushkin Sonnet

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 14-line sonnet with a distinctive rhyme scheme: AbAb CCdd EffE gg, named for Alexander Pushkin.

Detailed Definition
Pushkin Sonnet refers to a specific Russian sonnet form popularized by Alexander Pushkin, typically composed of 14 lines in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of ABABCCDDEFFEGG; distinct from both Petrarchan and Shakespearean models, the Pushkin Sonnet features a tightly woven structure that balances narrative progression with lyrical intensity, often culminating in a philosophical or emotional volta in the final couplet, and it played a pivotal role in establishing modern Russian poetic diction by blending European form with native linguistic rhythms and thematic concerns.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Pushkin sonnet is a 14-line poem that combines elements of both Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet forms, with a rhyme scheme of ababccddeffegg; for example, Alexander Pushkin’s “I loved you: and perhaps I love you still” follows this structure: “I loved you: and perhaps I love you still, / The flame, perhaps, is not extinguished; yet / It burns so quietly within my soul, / No longer should you feel distressed
Additional Notes
Pushkin Sonnet modifies the Petrarchan sonnet with a rhyme scheme ABABCCDD EFFE GG, blending Italian and English traditions.
Also Known As
Russian sonnet Onegin stanza Pushkin fourteen-liner Russian love poem
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