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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witty poetry

Genre
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

Verse characterized by cleverness, wordplay, and quick verbal humor

Detailed Definition
Witty poetry employs intellectual humor, verbal dexterity, and clever conceits to engage readers through surprise and insight; rooted in metaphysical and Augustan traditions, it balances levity with sharp observation, often using irony or paradox to critique or illuminate human folly.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Donne’s “The Flea”: “Mark but this flea, and mark in this, / How little that which thou deniest me is” (conceit with wit); Alexander Pope’s “An Essay on Criticism”: “A little learning is a dang’rous thing” (epigrammatic wit); Dorothy Parker’s “Résumé”: “Razors pain you; / Rivers are damp” (dark humor); Ogden Nash’s playful rhymes: “The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk”
Additional Notes
witty poetry: Verse that employs sharp intellect, clever wordplay, and often satirical or paradoxical insights to make a point; characteristic of Metaphysical and Neoclassical poetry; focuses on mental agility rather than pure emotion.
Also Known As
Epigrammatic poetry Witty verse Clever poetry Facetious verse Light verse light verse form
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