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.

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 T

three-line Italian form

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 three-line stanza form common in Italian poetry, often rhymed or used for lyrical encapsulation.

Detailed Definition
A three-line Italian form typically refers to terza rima—a chain-rhymed stanza (ABA BCB CDC)—originating in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” where each tercet links to the next through shared rhyme; this form creates forward momentum and structural unity, embodying spiritual or intellectual progression, and has been adapted by poets like Shelley and Auden to explore philosophical or lyrical journeys.
Example
Example in poetry:
Petrarchan tercets (ABA BCB CDC, etc.) in Italian sonnets; Dante’s terza rima: “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura...” — interlocking three-line stanzas; Leopardi’s “L’infinito” uses three-line stanzas with variable rhyme; Modern example: “Mountains rise / above the plain / in silent grace” — unrhymed three-line Italian-inspired form
Additional Notes
three-line Italian form|A general term for any three-line stanza structure used in Italian poetry, most famously the terza rima (ABA BCB) but also includes various other tercet forms.
Also Known As
Terza rima triplet Italian tercet Three-line Italian stanza Capitolo
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