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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I 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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Woven tercet

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 stanza interlacing multiple threads of image, sound, or syntax

Detailed Definition
A woven tercet is a three-line stanza where lines interlace syntactically or imagistically—through enjambment, parallel structure, or mirrored diction—to create a braided effect, symbolizing interconnectedness, dialogue, or the entanglement of past, present, and future.
Example
Example in poetry:
Woven tercet appears in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” where terza rima interlocks rhymes (ABA BCB CDC) to create forward momentum; in Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind,” tercets cascade like wind currents; in Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnets,” tercets often interlace personal and political themes; Thom Gunn’s “The Man with Night Sweats” uses woven tercets to convey AIDS-era grief; contemporary poet A.E. Stallings revives terza rima in “Sestina: Like,” blending classical form with digital-age themes.
Additional Notes
Tercet featuring interwoven syntax, imagery, or sound patterns. Related to Woven caesura. Lines interdepend rather than standing separately. Creates unified three-line unit through connection.
Also Known As
Interlaced tercet Braided triplet Threaded three-liner Interwoven verse
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