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

Reverse 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

A repetition technique where a phrase or line is echoed in reverse word order, creating palindromic or mirrored structural effects.

Detailed Definition
Reverse echo is a poetic device in which a word, phrase, or sound from a later line is anticipated or faintly echoed in an earlier line, subverting the conventional forward progression of echoic repetition; this technique creates a sense of temporal looping or premonition, enhancing thematic depth by suggesting that the conclusion is already latent within the poem’s opening gestures.
Example
Example in poetry:
A figure where a sound or word from the end of a line is echoed, or slightly varied, at the beginning of the immediately preceding line; for example: "The wind whispered cold, / A cold mind pondered truth." (The second word, mind, echoes wind in the previous line's end.); A line ends with the word "darkness," and the line before it ends with "starkness," creating a subtle, reversed sonic echo.; The end-word of line 4 is "see," and the end-word of line 3 is "me," a perfect reverse echo of sound and half-rhyme.; A poem where the last word of line N is a monosyllable, and the last word of line N-1 is a near-rhyme, two-syllable word ending in that monosyllable.
Additional Notes
A repetition of a phrase or line where the second appearance is the exact opposite (in meaning or structure) of the first, creating a sharp contrast or a rhetorical flourish; related to antistrophe.
Also Known As
Echo in reverse backward echo reverse reply Antistrophic echo
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