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 echo

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

An echo that references itself or recurs at multiple structural levels.

Detailed Definition
A recursive echo is a poetic technique wherein a word, phrase, or structural motif reappears at multiple levels of a poem—not merely as repetition but as a transformed iteration that comments on, complicates, or deepens its earlier instance—creating a self-referential loop that mirrors cognitive or emotional recursion; for example, a refrain that subtly alters its wording with each recurrence to reflect shifting psychological states allows the echo to function as both anchor and evolution, generating thematic density through layered return rather than static recurrence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Recursive echo appears in sestina end-words rotating across stanzas; Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina” echoes “house,” “grandmother,” “child” cyclically; modern example: A.E. Stallings’ “Sestina: Like” uses lexical recursion for emotional resonance; recursive echo creates structural memory; it’s common in fixed forms like villanelle; this technique builds cumulative intensity through return.
Additional Notes
Recursive echo repeats a phrase with slight variation each time, evolving meaning through iteration; useful for exploring memory or obsession—track semantic drift across repetitions.
Also Known As
Returning echo Self-referential sound Loop repetition Recursive repetition Returning repetition
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