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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Syndesis

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

The deliberate use of conjunctions to connect words, phrases, or clauses. It emphasizes linkage, accumulation, or continuity.

Detailed Definition
Syndesis joins elements with connecting words such as “and,” “but,” “or,” and “yet,” making their relationships explicit. A poet may use repeated conjunctions to create a flowing, cumulative movement: “and rain and smoke and bells.” The device can suggest abundance, persistence, breathlessness, or careful logical sequence. It is especially effective when a poem wants readers to feel that images cannot be separated, whether they are bound by love, causation, memory, or overwhelming sensation.
Example
Example in poetry:
“And rain and wind and darkness pressed against the door” links images through repeated conjunctions; “She sang and waited and wept and sang again” uses and to slow the action and emphasize endurance; “The poem joins sea and sky and gull and sail into one continuous coastal scene”; “Neither crown nor sword nor prayer could save the king” binds alternatives into a unified rhythm
Additional Notes
Syndesis uses conjunctions such as and, but, or, and nor to join elements deliberately. Repeated connections can make a list feel abundant, breathless, continuous, or insistently linked. It contrasts with asyndeton, where conjunctions are omitted for speed or sharpness.
Also Known As
Syndeton
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