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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Synchronic

Philosophy
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

Synchronic refers to the analysis of a phenomenon at a single point in time, focusing on its structure rather than its historical development. It is a static perspective.

Detailed Definition
Saussure's synchronic linguistics contrasts with diachronic. In poetry, a synchronic reading might analyze a poem's formal structure at a fixed moment. The poet might create a timeless, static image, arresting temporal flow. This focus on the 'now' gives poetry its power of immediate impact, presenting a world where time is suspended. It allows for a deep dive into the relationships within a text at a single moment.
Example
Example in poetry:
A formal analysis of a poem's structure, focusing on its meter and rhyme scheme at a static moment, is a synchronic reading; The interpretation of a poem without considering its historical context is a synchronic approach; A poet's creation of a timeless, static image, like an ekphrastic poem, is a synchronic act; The analysis of a poem's internal symbolic system, without reference to history, is a synchronic study.
Additional Notes
Synchronic is a term from Saussure's linguistics, referring to the analysis of a language or a phenomenon at a single point in time. A synchronic study focuses on the structure of a system at a given moment, rather than its historical development (which is diachronic). A synchronic analysis examines how the elements of a system relate to each other at that specific time. In poetry, a synchronic reading might analyze a poem's formal structure, its grammar, or its symbolic system as a static, unified whole. The poet might create a timeless, static image, arresting temporal flow. This focus on the "now" gives poetry its power of immediate impact.
Also Known As
Synchronic analysis Static analysis Structural analysis
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