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.

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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Scrambled-letter acrostic

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

An acrostic created by rearranging or scrambling the expected letter sequence.

Detailed Definition
Scrambled-letter acrostic is a poem in which the initial letters of each line spell a word or message, but the letters within those lines are anagrammed or rearranged to obscure or complicate the surface meaning; this doubly constrained form merges puzzle-like ingenuity with lyrical expression, often yielding layered or cryptic interpretations.
Example
Example in poetry:
In an acrostic using the name “POEM,” the lines might begin with scrambled letters like M, E, P, O to spell a hidden word when reordered; A poem with lines starting M-A-R-Y but intended to reveal “ARMY” when rearranged demonstrates scrambled-letter acrostic; Poet Raymond Queneau’s “Cent mille milliards de poèmes” includes scrambled-letter acrostics via combinatorial design; A classroom exercise might use scrambled initials of “LOVE” (e.g., V, E, L, O) to teach acrostic flexibility
Additional Notes
Scrambled-letter acrostic is an acrostic poem where the letters that form a word or phrase (vertically or diagonally) are not the first letters of the lines, but are scattered or 'scrambled' within the lines themselves.
Also Known As
Jumbled acrostic mixed-letter acrostic scrambled writing Anagram acrostic
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