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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Reconsideration

Device
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 poetic technique of revisiting and revising a previous statement

Detailed Definition
The poetic device of revisiting and reconsidering an earlier statement within the same poem, showing thought process or employing rhetoric of apparent spontaneous revision. This technique creates conversational intimacy by suggesting the poet thinks through problems before readers rather than presenting only polished conclusions. Reconsideration may be genuine second thought or strategic device, but always draws attention to the process of meaning-making itself.
Example
Example in poetry:
Reconsideration appears in Shakespeare’s sonnets: “My love is as a fever, longing still / For that which longer nurseth the disease” then shifts perspective; modern example: Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” reconsiders victimhood as power; reconsideration revises earlier claims within a poem; it’s common in dramatic monologue and confessional verse; this device shows evolving thought; it creates psychological depth.
Additional Notes
Revisiting and reconsidering earlier statement within poem. Shows thought process or rhetorical strategy of appearing to think through problem. Creates conversational intimacy with reader.
Also Known As
Second thought Revision Reconsideration device Amended thought Epanorthosis
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