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.

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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Revelatory quatrain

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 prophetic or visionary four-line stanza that delivers insight, divine message, or apocalyptic revelation with solemn authority.

Detailed Definition
A Revelatory quatrain is a four-line stanza that culminates in a sudden disclosure or insight, functioning as a self-contained epiphany; its concise form concentrates emotional and intellectual energy, using rhyme and meter to frame the revelation as both inevitable and transformative.
Example
Example in poetry:
A four-line stanza in a longer poem that, after setting a scene, abruptly delivers a sentence of sudden, devastating truth (e.g., "And in that mirror, I saw no friend."); The final quatrain of a poem that summarizes all preceding events but provides a shocking, previously unstated implication.; A quatrain that uses a simple, domestic image to open up an unexpected, vast, and terrifying metaphysical question.; A stanza that begins with light description but ends with a sudden, deep moral judgment or self-recognition for the speaker.
Additional Notes
A four-line unit (quatrain) that functions to unveil a key piece of information, a sudden truth, or the resolution of a mystery, acting as a turning point in the poem.
Also Known As
Unveiling quatrain visionary quatrain revelatory stanza
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