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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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Revised-over sonnet

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 sonnet that has been rewritten, altered, or layered with revisions within its text

Detailed Definition
Revised-over sonnet is a sonnet that undergoes deliberate structural or thematic revision within its own span—often through a volta that not only shifts perspective but reinterprets or negates earlier assertions—creating a self-correcting or dialogic form; this technique reflects modernist or postmodern concerns with instability of meaning and authorial revision.
Example
Example in poetry:
A sonnet that, after its initial composition, is overlaid with new lines or revised phrases that deliberately contradict or offer a meta-commentary on the original text, without erasing the first text.; A sonnet where the first four lines establish a traditional romantic theme, but the next four lines are a revision, critique, or sarcastic refutation of the initial sentiment.; A poem that begins as a perfect Shakespearean sonnet and then the last four lines are a sudden break into free verse, or an entirely different, modern tone, as if revising the form itself.; A sonnet written in 14 lines, where the last line is a direct, pointed correction or "overwriting" of the very first line.
Additional Notes
Revised-over sonnet is a variant form, possibly the curtal sonnet or another non-traditional sonnet, where the conventional 14-line structure is overtly revised, shortened, or has its thematic/structural elements rearranged; students should know the traditional Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets first.
Also Known As
Revised quatorzain altered sonnet reworked fourteen-liner Palimpsest sonnet Palimpsestic sonnet
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