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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Self-answer

Device
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 rhetorical structure in which a speaker poses and immediately answers their own question

Detailed Definition
Self-answer is a poetic maneuver where a speaker poses a question and immediately supplies the answer, often within the same stanza or line, creating a closed loop of inquiry and resolution; this technique can convey certainty, introspection, or didacticism, as in devotional poetry where the soul questions and affirms divine truth in one breath.
Example
Example in poetry:
Self-answer poses and resolves a question within the poem: Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you? / Are you – Nobody – too?”; Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” concludes its own inquiry; contemporary examples include Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” (“Ocean, don’t be afraid… you’ll be loved”); Rilke’s “You must change your life” answers the statue’s gaze; Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 resolves its opening question.
Additional Notes
Self-answer poses a question and immediately resolves it within the same stanza or line. Related to self-commentary stanza. Builds rhetorical momentum—use sparingly to avoid didacticism; best when the answer surprises or deepens.
Also Known As
Autological answer Self-contained reply Reflexive resolution Internal response Hypophora
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