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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Revised fourteen-liner

Form
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 revised fourteen-liner is a sonnet that incorporates self-correction, doubt, or revision within its structure, often through parentheticals or shifting tones.

Detailed Definition
A sonnet containing internal revisions, corrections, or modifications of its own arguments, showing thought process within the formal structure. The self-revision may be genuine reconsideration or rhetorical strategy, but it demonstrates thinking in progress rather than presenting only final conclusions. This variant uses the sonnet's argumentative tradition to explore how meaning emerges through revision, making the correction process itself part of the poem's content.
Example
Example in poetry:
Revised fourteen-liner adapts sonnet form with structural innovation: Terrance Hayes’ “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” uses 14 lines but free verse; Wanda Coleman’s “American Sonnet” series breaks rhyme and meter; Contemporary example: 14 lines with no volta, or multiple voltas; Such revisions critique traditional sonnet’s Eurocentrism or rigidity; They retain the form’s compression while expanding its politics; Often address identity, history, or resistance.
Additional Notes
Sonnet containing internal revisions or corrections. Shows thought process within formal structure. The revision may be genuine reconsideration or rhetorical strategy for emphasis.
Also Known As
Corrected sonnet Amended fourteen-liner Self-revising sonnet Modified sonnet Epanorthotic sonnet
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