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

Home › Glossary › Letter V

verse summary

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 condensed restatement of a poem's main ideas or narrative in concluding lines.

Detailed Definition
Condensed final statements in verse form providing brief recapitulations of longer works or crystallizing essential meanings into compressed poetic formulations. Differs from prose summary by maintaining verse structure and aesthetic qualities. Can serve as envoi to longer work, standalone compression of narrative or argument, or poetic distillation of complex content. Challenges poets to achieve both brevity and adequacy, capturing essence without oversimplifying. Related to abstract or synopsis but specifically employing poetic rather than expository compression.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the final couplet often serves as verse summary: “If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved”; In “Ozymandias,” Shelley’s last lines summarize imperial folly; In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost’s closing lines summarize life choice; In “Still I Rise,” Angelou’s repeated “I rise” functions as verse summary; In “Do Not Go Gentle,” Thomas’s refrain summarizes resistance to death.
Additional Notes
Verse summaries can serve as envois to longer works, standalone condensations of narratives, or poetic distillations of complex arguments. The challenge lies in achieving compression without oversimplification or losing poetic quality. Unlike prose summaries prioritizing information, verse summaries must maintain aesthetic value through rhythm, imagery, and sonic effects. Sometimes called arguments when prefacing longer works, they prepare readers for what follows. When writing verse summaries, focus on capturing essence rather than comprehensive detail, allowing poetic compression to reveal rather than merely reduce. Consider how form itself can reinforce summarized content.
Also Known As
poetic précis verse recapitulation condensed verse statement brief verse summary Epitome
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