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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Visible sound pattern

Sound
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 arrangement of sonic elements that is clearly perceptible and recognizable.

Detailed Definition
Repetition, echo, or sonic correspondence obvious to eye on printed page and immediately audible to ear, not requiring close analysis to perceive. Manifest rather than subtle, such patterns announce themselves through typography, layout, or obvious recurrence. Concrete poetry often employs visible sound patterns where visual arrangement reinforces or creates sonic effects. Refrains, anaphora, and other explicit repetitions create visible sound patterns. Distinguishes itself from hidden sonic relationships requiring careful attention by being immediately, obviously perceptible.
Example
Example in poetry:
In George Herbert’s “Easter Wings,” the visible sound pattern mirrors the theme through wing-shaped lines; In concrete poetry like Ian Hamilton Finlay’s “Acrobats,” letter placement creates visual rhythm mimicking sound; In e.e. cummings’ “l(a,” the isolated letters visually echo the sound of “loneliness”; In “The Altar,” Herbert’s stone-shaped poem creates a visible sound pattern of devotion; Contemporary poet Jen Bervin’s “Nets” overlays Shakespeare’s sonnets with erasure, making sound patterns visible through absence.
Additional Notes
This includes obvious repetition like refrains and anaphora, typographic arrangements creating visual patterns, and concrete poetry where layout reinforces meaning. Distinguished from subtle sonic relationships requiring close reading, visible sound patterns announce themselves immediately. When analyzing, consider how visual arrangement on page interacts with sonic effects when read aloud. Gertrude Stein's repetitions create visible patterns, as does concrete poetry arranging words spatially. Modern digital poetry extends this by incorporating animation or interactive elements. Understanding visible sound patterns helps appreciate how poetry exists both as visual text and performed sound.
Also Known As
visual echo typographic pattern surface repetition obvious sonic design Epipolic Rhyme
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