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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

round construction

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 circular poetic structure where the end connects back to the beginning, creating a closed loop that emphasizes recurrence or unity.

Detailed Definition
Round construction is a poetic form that begins and ends with the same word, phrase, or image, creating a circular or cyclical structure that suggests eternal return, completeness, or unresolved recurrence; this technique reinforces thematic unity and often evokes mythic or ritualistic time rather than linear progression.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem structured in ring composition (A-B-C...C'-B'-A'), where the beginning and end mirror each other, or the middle parts reverse the first parts.; A poem where the thematic material is presented in a symmetrical, mirrored fashion around a central pivot point (the chiasmus).; A poetic sequence where the final line or stanza is a near-perfect repetition of the opening line or stanza, creating a sense of completion and circularity.; A long poem that uses a refrain (returning chorus) that closes the opening stanza and reopens the final stanza.
Additional Notes
Round construction is a structural technique where a poem or stanza is organized in a circular way, such as ring composition, where the ending structurally or thematically returns to the beginning.
Also Known As
Circular frame round composition enclosing design Circular syntax
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