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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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Theatrical tristich

Form
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 dramatic three-line stanza designed for performative delivery, often featuring heightened emotion, dialogue, or stage-like tension.

Detailed Definition
A theatrical tristich is a three-line stanza designed for dramatic effect, often assigning each line to a different speaker or emotional register, creating tension through compression; used in closet drama or performance poetry, this form leverages the triadic structure for climax, revelation, or antithesis, where brevity heightens intensity and each line functions as a distinct dramatic beat.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s witches in "Macbeth": "Double, double toil and trouble"; Greek chorus triads in tragedy; Dante’s tercets in "Divine Comedy"; Modern theatrical tristichs in Tony Kushner’s verse dramas; Adrienne Kennedy’s poetic plays use three-line units for psychological tension.
Additional Notes
A theatrical tristich uses three-line stanzas with dramatic, speech-like qualities—often for monologue or dialogue (e.g., Williams’s “Danse Russe”). It balances brevity and intensity. Students should analyze performative cues: how would this sound spoken? Related to “character voice.”
Also Known As
Dramatic tercet Staged tristich Theatrical triplet Performative three-liner Performance triplet Staged three-liner
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