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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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Reversal structure

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 structure in which elements appear in inverted or reversed order.

Detailed Definition
Reversal structure is a poetic technique wherein the sequence of ideas, images, or syntactic elements introduced in the first half of a poem is systematically inverted or mirrored in the second half, creating a chiastic or palindromic effect that emphasizes thematic contrast or resolution; this structure often reinforces a turning point or epiphany, as seen in sonnets where the volta initiates a conceptual reversal that recontextualizes earlier stanzas.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that begins with a theme of joy and celebration but, through its middle, undergoes a complete thematic and emotional shift to end in sorrow and despair.; A narrative poem where the second half of the story directly contradicts or logically invalidates the premise set up in the first half.; A poem structured around two distinct scenes: the first is a lively summer gathering, and the second is a desolate winter aftermath, creating a complete mood and setting reversal.; A poem using a chiasmus (A-B-B-A) structure for its whole concept, such as starting with A (love is fire), B (fire is pain), then B (pain is fire), and ending with A (fire is love), though the full structure is more complex than just a chiasmus.
Additional Notes
A structural technique where the conclusion of a poem inverts, contradicts, or radically alters the meaning, tone, or situation established at the beginning; related to irony and paradox.
Also Known As
Inverse structure reversal form countering design Antimetabolic structure Chiasmus
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