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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

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.

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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unbalanced run-on

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

An unbalanced run-on is a type of enjambment where the syntactic break creates rhythmic or semantic imbalance, producing tension or an awkward, unresolved flow between lines.

Detailed Definition
An unbalanced run-on is a poetic enjambment where a syntactic unit spills over into the next line without proportional rhythmic or semantic compensation, creating tension between grammatical flow and metrical structure; this imbalance can generate urgency, disorientation, or emotional rawness in the reading experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
A line ending mid-clause without punctuation, spilling into the next line with no syntactic pause; “The wind rushed through the trees and carried with it the scent of rain that had fallen days before” split awkwardly across three lines; A sentence continuing over several lines without grammatical breaks, creating breathless urgency; “She ran faster than she ever had before and never looked back not even once” broken unevenly across stanzas
Additional Notes
Unbalanced run-on: A type of enjambment where the grammatical break (like a verb/object split) is so awkward or unexpected that it disrupts the rhythmic flow, often for jarring effect; contrast with a smooth enjambment.
Also Known As
Run-on imbalance Unbalanced enjambment Lopsided flow Asymmetrical enjambment
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