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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Rhetorical Q&A

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 sequence of rhetorical questions answered within the poem to heighten persuasion or introspection

Detailed Definition
Rhetorical Q&A is a poetic device where questions are posed not to elicit answers but to assert truths, provoke thought, or dramatize inner conflict, often followed by immediate or implied responses that function as emphatic declarations; this structure leverages interrogation as a form of persuasion or self-revelation, common in prophetic or meditative verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Langston Hughes’s “Harlem,” the rhetorical Q&A “What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” uses interrogation to provoke social reflection; In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot poses “Do I dare disturb the universe?” then answers with self-doubt, creating internal rhetorical Q&A; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” employs rhetorical Q&A like “What did you say?” followed by silence to expose racial microaggressions; In spirituals, “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?” invites communal response as rhetorical Q&A; Student exercise: “Why write? / To remember what the world forgets” as minimalist rhetorical Q&A.
Additional Notes
Rhetorical Q&A poses and answers a question within the poem’s logic. Related to self-answer and problem-solving approach. Builds persuasive momentum—ensure the answer complicates or surprises, not just confirms expectation.
Also Known As
Rhetorical dialogue Poetic interrogation Self-posed query Dramatic Q&A Hypophora
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