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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Verse paragraph

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 block of unrhymed iambic pentameter lines functioning as a prose-like unit in blank verse drama or narrative, without stanza breaks.

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Blank Verse — Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter: a five-beat line whose regular pulse can support speech, argument, story and reflection. Its strength lies not in sounding mechanically regular, but in the expressive tension between an underlying pattern and the changing rhythms of a voice.

Detailed Definition
A verse paragraph is a poetic unit composed of irregular line groupings unified by thought rather than meter or rhyme, resembling prose paragraphs; it allows flexible development of complex ideas while retaining poetic diction, rhythm, and imagery.
Example
Example in poetry:
Verse paragraph: Milton’s "Paradise Lost" uses verse paragraphs for epic flow; Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey" blends meditation and description in paragraphs; Contemporary: Jorie Graham’s long-lined verse paragraphs in "Fast"; Verse paragraphs in Claudia Rankine’s "Citizen" merge prose and poetry
Additional Notes
Group of verse lines forming unit without stanza break. Varies in length unlike fixed stanzas. Common in blank verse and free verse. Study with enjambment and thought units.
Also Known As
Stanzaic unit thought unit verse block poetic paragraph Stanza
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