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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two-line composite

Structure
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 larger poem constructed from assembled or arranged couplet units

Detailed Definition
A two-line composite is a couplet or distich formed by combining or assembling different elements, materials, or components into a unified structural unit. This term emphasizes the constructed nature of the pairing, suggesting that the lines work together to create effects not achievable by either line independently. Two-line composites may join contrasting elements, combine different registers or tones, or unite disparate images into single units, demonstrating how the couplet form serves as a frame for bringing diverse materials into productive relationship within compact structures.
Example
Example in poetry:
Two-line composite appears in heroic couplets: Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism”; modern example: A.E. Stallings’ “Hapax Legomenon” uses couplets for lexical play; two-line composite balances symmetry and closure; it’s common in satire and epigram; this form emphasizes wit and resolution; it often employs rhyme and parallel syntax.
Additional Notes
A two-line composite joins two lines that function as a single semantic or rhythmic unit—may or may not rhyme, and often serves as a building block in longer forms.
Also Known As
Distich composite Couplet fusion Two-line stanza Paired verse unit Couplet mosaic
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