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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rhymeless 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 forgoes end-rhyme but preserves traditional meter (often iambic pentameter) and the fourteen-line structure.

Detailed Definition
Rhymeless sonnet is a fourteen-line poem adhering to traditional sonnet structure—such as iambic pentameter and volta—but deliberately omitting end rhyme to achieve a more modern, conversational, or introspective tone; this form, used by poets like Robert Frost, retains formal discipline while embracing free-verse sensibilities.
Example
Example in poetry:
A sonnet that strictly adheres to the 14-line structure, meter (usually iambic pentameter), and volta (turn) but deliberately omits end-rhyme; for example, a Shakespearean sonnet written entirely in blank verse.; A sequence of 14 lines in an octave/sestet structure with a clear metrical pattern, but without any discernible rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG becomes AAAA BBBB CCCC DD).; A poem that takes on the form and tone of a traditional sonnet, but the choice to use free verse (no meter or rhyme) makes it a rhymeless sonnet.; A loose Petrarchan sonnet that uses an ABCA DEFA GHI JKL MN pattern (no repetition of end sounds).
Additional Notes
Rhymeless sonnet is a sonnet (14 lines) that adheres to the strict meter, typically iambic pentameter, and structural rules of a traditional sonnet form (like the Petrarchan or Shakespearean), but intentionally omits end rhyme; a form of blank verse applied to the sonnet.
Also Known As
Blank sonnet unrhymed sonnet rhymeless fourteen-liner
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