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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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Sonet

French
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

The medieval Occitan precursor of the sonnet, designating a short lyric poem of refined craftsmanship. The term evolved into the Italian sonetto and eventually the modern sonnet form.

Detailed Definition
The sonet is a crucial term in the genealogy of one of Western poetry's most enduring forms. In Occitan, it designates a refined short poem, etymologically related to the word for sound or melody. The Italian poets of the 13th century, influenced by troubadour lyric, developed it into the fourteen-line sonnet with its characteristic bipartite structure of octave and sestet. The Pétrarcan sonnet then conquered European poetry through the Renaissance. In France, Du Bellay's Olive marked its triumphant arrival. Tracing the sonet reveals the deep continuity between troubadour lyric and the Renaissance love poetry it inspired.
Example
Example in poetry:
A medieval French sonet predates or parallels later standardised sonnet traditions; Early sonet forms may show looser structural conventions than Petrarchan models; A student traces how the sonet evolved into the modern sonnet; A compact love poem in fourteen lines reflects the sonet tradition
Additional Notes
Sonet represents the French adaptation of the sonnet tradition, especially important in Renaissance literary culture through poets such as Ronsard and Du Bellay. Students should distinguish French sonnet conventions from Italian and English variants, particularly regarding rhyme structure. The sonnet’s compact argumentative or emotional architecture makes it ideal for studying volta, closure, and formal discipline. Because the form travelled internationally, it also offers excellent opportunities for comparative literary analysis.
Also Known As
Sonnet Sonet ancien
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