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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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Syncrisis

Rhetorical Devices
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 detailed comparison between contrasting people, things, or situations. It reveals character or value through paired examination.

Detailed Definition
Syncrisis places two subjects beside one another so that their differences and similarities become meaningful. A poet may contrast a faithful worker with a boastful ruler, a living city with its ruined past, or youthful hope with aged knowledge. Unlike a casual comparison, syncrisis develops both sides in parallel detail. The device can praise one figure by diminishing another, complicate easy judgments, or show how identity emerges through contrast. It is common in satire, elegy, and moral poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The king wears gold while the farmer wears mud, yet both kneel before winter” compares two figures in parallel; “Like Achilles, the young soldier seeks glory, but like Hector, he fights for home” sets heroic models against each other; “One sister gathers flowers, the other gathers debts” uses balanced comparison to reveal contrast; “The poem places the rich man’s warm house beside the widow’s cold room to sharpen its social criticism”
Additional Notes
Syncrisis develops a balanced comparison, often placing two figures or situations side by side to reveal their differences. A poem might contrast a ruler with a laborer, or a remembered home with a present one. Parallel structure helps readers track the paired evaluation.
Also Known As
Comparatio Comparison
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