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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Rhymed quintet

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 five-line stanza with a consistent rhyme scheme (e.g., ababb, abaab), often used for epigrammatic or narrative closure.

Detailed Definition
Rhymed quintet is any five-line stanza with a consistent and intentional rhyme scheme, such as AABBA (limerick), ABABB, or ABCAB, offering greater flexibility than quatrains for narrative development, argument, or emotional progression. The extra line allows for more complex thought structures—setup, development, twist, reflection, conclusion—while maintaining formal cohesion. Rhymed quintets appear in light verse, devotional poetry, and modern adaptations, where the chosen scheme should support content: AABBA for humor, ABABA for meditation, ABCAB for narrative flow. Meter should remain consistent unless variation serves a deliberate expressive purpose.
Example
Example in poetry:
The rose is red, the violet’s blue, / The honey’s sweet, and so are you; / The sky is high, the sea is deep, / And love is strong—though hard to keep; / But time will tell if hearts stay true; There once was a knight from the west, / Who loved a queen he’d never met; / He wrote her poems, bold and grand, / She sent him back a grain of sand; / Yet still he dreamed, and never rest; A sailor sailed the ocean wide, / With stars above and hope inside; / He sang a song of home and shore, / But storms arose and wrecked his oar; / His ship was lost, his dreams denied; The mountain stood through wind and rain, / Through centuries of joy and pain; / It watched the world both bloom and fade, / Saw empires rise and kingdoms laid; / Yet still it stood, through sun and sleet
Additional Notes
Rhymed quintet is any five-line stanza with a consistent rhyme scheme (AABBA, ABABB, etc.). It offers more flexibility than quatrains for narrative or argument. Students should choose schemes that support content—AABBA for humor, ABABA for meditation. Meter should remain consistent unless variation is purposeful.
Also Known As
five-line stanza with rhyme quintain with terminal echoes lyrical pentastich AABBA poem
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