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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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reverse parallelism

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 structural pattern where the second half mirrors the first in reverse order (e.g., abcd dcba), creating chiastic balance and reflexive meaning.

Detailed Definition
Reverse parallelism is a rhetorical and poetic structure in which corresponding elements in successive clauses or lines appear in inverted order (e.g., “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country”), creating a mirror-like symmetry that emphasizes balance, contrast, or paradox; this technique deepens meaning by juxtaposing reciprocal ideas within a formally cohesive framework.
Example
Example in poetry:
The famous quote: "We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us." (A-B-C, B-C-A pattern of concepts, though not exact words).; The poetic phrase: "Despair not in want; want not in despair." (A-B, B-A structure—a form of antimetabole); "She went out with a sigh, but with a sigh came in she." (The grammatical parts of speech, or the main words, are inverted in the second clause).; A line where the phrase structure is (Verb - Noun), and the next line uses the structure (Noun - Verb) with the same or related words.
Additional Notes
A figure of speech where two successive phrases or clauses are constructed the same way grammatically, but the order of the key words is reversed; the formal definition of chiasmus (e.g., 'Do not live to eat, but eat to live').
Also Known As
Inverted parallelism counter symmetry reversed parallel structure Chiastic
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