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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Systematic correspondence

Device
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

Deliberate, organized patterns of parallelism or matching throughout a poem

Detailed Definition
Systematic correspondence refers to the organizing principle where elements throughout a poem maintain regular patterns of parallelism, equivalence, or balanced relationship according to consistent rules or schemes. This structural approach creates coherence through the systematic application of corresponding patterns rather than through narrative logic or thematic progression. Systematic correspondence makes structural relationships highly visible and predictable, establishing frameworks where meaning emerges from the interplay of related elements organized according to perceivable principles that reward attention to pattern and design.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Spenserian sonnets, the rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE shows systematic correspondence between quatrains; In “The Waste Land,” Eliot uses systematic correspondence between mythic and modern fragments (e.g., Tiresias linking sections); In ghazals, each couplet ends with the same refrain and rhyme (radif/qafia), as in Ghalib’s Urdu poetry; Shakespeare’s history plays systematically correspond historical events to poetic meter and imagery; In “Song of Myself,” Whitman uses cataloging as systematic correspondence between body parts and democratic ideals.
Additional Notes
Systematic correspondence establishes consistent relationships between stanzas, lines, or images—such as mirrored rhyme schemes or thematic echoes—enhancing structural unity and interpretive depth.
Also Known As
Ordered correspondence Structured reciprocity Systematic mirroring Methodical parallelism Correlative verse
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