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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Shared Reading

Education
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 guided reading practice in which a teacher and learners read a text together. It supports fluency, discussion, and collective attention to language and meaning.

Detailed Definition
In shared reading, a class encounters a poem aloud and together, often with the teacher modeling phrasing, expression, and strategies for noticing details. Participants may reread lines, echo a speaker, identify patterns, or pause to discuss unfamiliar words and images. The method makes poetry less isolating, especially for developing readers who benefit from hearing its rhythms before interpreting it independently. Shared reading appears in poetry instruction because sound, pacing, and communal response can clarify a poem’s structure and invite multiple perspectives.
Example
Example in poetry:
During shared reading, the teacher reads a poem aloud while students follow the printed text and join repeated lines; A class uses shared reading of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” to notice rhyme and rhythm together; In shared reading, students take turns reading stanzas and listening for changes in speaker or mood; The teacher pauses during shared reading to model how readers ask questions about an unfamiliar image
Additional Notes
Shared reading makes the teacher’s interpretive and fluency practices visible. A leader can model phrasing, ask students to echo lines, pause for predictions, and invite multiple observations before explaining. Poems work especially well because a short text can be reread together, allowing attention to sound, pattern, and ambiguity.
Also Known As
Collaborative Reading Choral Reading Guided Group Reading Communal Reading Interactive Read-Aloud
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