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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Rococo

Art
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

An ornate style characterized by elegance, asymmetry, pastel color, and playful decoration.

Detailed Definition
Rococo art favors curling forms, delicate surfaces, pastoral scenes, flirtation, and an atmosphere of lightness or luxury. Though sometimes dismissed as merely decorative, it can also reveal social performance and instability beneath elegance. In poetry, rococo can describe lavish imagery, musical elaboration, and playful sensuality. A rococo poem may use ornament deliberately, allowing excess, charm, and intricate pattern to question the seriousness of its own beautiful surface.
Example
Example in poetry:
A rococo-inspired poem might use playful images of pastel gardens, cherubs, mirrors, ribbons, and flirtation; In a poem set in an ornate salon, luxuriant adjectives and curling lines can imitate rococo decoration; A speaker might compare a lover’s laugh to a rococo fountain, elaborate, bright, and lightly theatrical; A poet can contrast rococo excess with poverty by placing gilded furniture beside a servant’s tired hands
Additional Notes
Rococo flourished in eighteenth-century Europe, especially France, and is associated with lightness, elegance, asymmetry, curving ornament, pastel tones, intimate interiors, playful eroticism, and decorative motifs such as shells and foliage. It developed partly from late Baroque traditions but generally favoured smaller scale and a more graceful mood. In literary comparison, “rococo” may describe highly ornamental, witty, delicate, or deliberately artificial effects. Compare Baroque, arabesque, pastoral, fêtes galantes, ornament, asymmetry, decorative arts, elegance, court culture, and Neoclassicism.
Also Known As
Rococo Art Rococo Period
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