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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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

Reverse parallel

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 parallel syntactic structure in which the second half reverses the order of elements from the first, creating chiasmus or inversion.

Detailed Definition
Reverse parallel is a structural pattern in poetry where two or more lines or stanzas exhibit parallel grammatical or syntactic forms but present their ideas in inverted order, such as AB followed by BA; this inversion often underscores contrast, irony, or cyclical return, and is commonly employed in biblical poetry and classical rhetoric to highlight thematic symmetry or tension.
Example
Example in poetry:
A sequence of rhetorical figures where the second figure presents the same elements as the first, but in a reversed logical or grammatical order (A-B becomes B-A); for example, parallelism of concepts: "To live for love and love for life to know." (A-B and B-A); The poetic concept where a phrase like "The sun sets, the day dies" (A, B) is followed immediately by "The day dies, the sun sets" (B, A) to emphasize the equivalence and connection.; A chiasmus, which is the most common form of reverse parallel: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." (Noun-Verb-Noun pattern reversed).; Two successive lines where the first is an adjective-noun pair and the second is a noun-adjective pair, such as "Green fields, fields green."
Additional Notes
A structural device where a sequence of ideas or phrases is repeated, but the order or relationship of the elements is inverted in the repetition; related to chiasmus.
Also Known As
Parallel inversion counter parallel reverse pairing Antistrophic verse
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