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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Zenithal point

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

The zenithal point is the structural and emotional climax of a poem—the moment of highest intensity, revelation, or turning point around which the work pivots.

Detailed Definition
Zenithal point is a poetic device or moment where a poem reaches its highest intensity, clarity, or emotional pitch—its "zenith"—often functioning as a climactic image, revelation, or syntactic apex within the composition. This point may coincide with a volta, a caesura, or a single resonant word that gathers the poem’s thematic and sonic energies. Unlike a simple climax, the zenithal point often carries a sense of transcendence or stillness, as in Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn" ("Beauty is truth, truth beauty"). For students, identifying the zenithal point helps analyze how poems build toward moments of epiphany or crystalline focus, revealing the architecture of poetic intensity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Climactic moment in poem: “Then—lightning split the oak in two”; “At the zenithal point, she understood”; turning point of highest intensity; often precedes resolution; structural and emotional peak.
Additional Notes
Highest point in poetic arc or trajectory. Astronomical metaphor for poem's apex. Related to climax and volta. Represents peak before descent or resolution.
Also Known As
poetic climax peak moment
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