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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

recursive break

Structure
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 structural repetition of interruptions or breaks resembling recursive processes

Detailed Definition
Recursive break is a formal poetic device wherein a line or stanza interrupts its own syntactic or thematic flow by looping back to reframe, revise, or undercut what has just been stated, creating a self-referential or self-correcting moment that mirrors cognitive or emotional revision; this technique, common in postmodern and confessional poetry, enacts the instability of meaning or memory, as when a speaker begins a declaration only to pause and qualify it—“I loved you—no, I needed you”—thereby revealing the layered, often contradictory nature of human thought and feeling through structural recursion.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the recursive break occurs when “I have known the eyes already” loops back on itself; In “Citizen,” Rankine’s repeated “you” creates recursive breaks that reframe prior statements; In villanelles like “Do not go gentle,” refrains act as recursive breaks; Contemporary poet Ocean Vuong uses “I was once” as recursive break to revisit trauma; Recursive break in haiku: “old pond— / frog jumps in— / old pond.”
Additional Notes
Recursive break interrupts a line or stanza only to return to the same thought later. Related to interrupted exchange and side-note continuation. Creates looping temporality—use to mirror obsession, memory, or cyclical trauma.
Also Known As
Recurrent break Iterative gap Repeated interruption Recursive pause Fractal enjambment
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