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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.

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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Resolution

Concept
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

The final section of a poem where conflicts, tensions, or questions find closure or answer

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How to Compare Poems — Comparing poems is not a matter of making two separate lists. It is a way of seeing how poems ask related questions in distinct voices, shapes and sounds—and of discovering what each poem makes newly visible in the other.

Detailed Definition
Resolution: The phase of narrative or dramatic poetry where tensions, complications, or conflicts reach conclusion or settlement. Resolution provides closure by addressing the difficulties raised during the poem's development, though the quality of resolution may vary from deeply satisfying to artificially convenient depending on how naturally it emerges from established materials.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats resolves aesthetic paradox with “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”; In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” resolution is deferred: “I do not think they will sing to me”; In “Do not go gentle,” Thomas resolves with final plea: “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears”; In “Citizen,” Rankine resolves with “What did you say?” leaving tension open; Student example: “The door closed. / I walked away. / Morning came.” as resolution.
Additional Notes
The conclusion or solving of complications in narrative poetry, where tensions are addressed. Essential element of plot structure, may be natural or artificial.
Also Known As
Denouement Conclusion Settlement Final resolution Dénouement Outcome
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