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

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Reversed-hemisphere repetition

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 technique where a refrain or phrase is repeated in inverted or reversed order, producing mirror-like symmetry or contrast.

Detailed Definition
Reversed-hemisphere repetition is a poetic strategy where a phrase or motif introduced in one “hemisphere” of a poem (e.g., the first half) reappears in the opposite hemisphere but altered in context, tone, or meaning, suggesting global or cosmic symmetry; this technique often evokes themes of balance, fate, or universal cycles across spatial or temporal divides.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that begins with a key phrase (A) in the first half, and then in the second half, a variation of that phrase (A') is repeated, but with the word order within the phrase reversed.; A long poem's first half ends with "The shadows hold the dark," and the second half ends with "The dark holds the shadows," reversing the word pair's position.; A poem where the first half is structured around the theme of rising (sun, hope, water) and the second half around setting (sun, hope, water) with corresponding verbal echoes.; A poetic sequence that uses the line "Morning is come, the stars are gone," in the first poem, and later uses the line "The stars are gone, for morning is come" in the last poem.
Additional Notes
Reversed-hemisphere repetition refers to a structural pattern where the second half of a poem (the "second hemisphere") repeats or mirrors the themes, images, or structure of the first half, but in reverse order or with a contrasting tone; related to ring composition.
Also Known As
Inverted hemisphere opposite hemisphere motif reversed world recurrence Antipodean refrain
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