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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 A

Accompaniment case

Concept
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 grammatical or poetic marker indicating that one entity accompanies another

Detailed Definition
Accompaniment case is a grammatical or syntactic construction in poetry where a secondary element—often a noun or phrase—functions not as the subject or object but as an accompanying or contextual modifier that enriches the primary action or image; this case subtly deepens thematic texture by embedding relational context within the verse, such as “he walked, his shadow trailing,” where “his shadow” serves as the accompaniment case enhancing mood and spatial awareness.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Latin poetry, the ablative case often functions as an accompaniment case: "cum amīcīs ambulābat" ("he walked with friends"); In Old English, "mid his gesiþum" ("with his companions") uses the instrumental case as an accompaniment case; In Russian poetry, the instrumental case marks accompaniment: "Он шёл с другом" ("He walked with a friend"); Classical Greek uses the dative case for accompaniment: "ἦλθε μετὰ τῶν φίλων" ("he came with his friends").
Additional Notes
Accompaniment case: Refers to grammatical or musical structures that provide support or accompaniment; in poetry, it may describe syntax or phrasing that highlights a supportive role of surrounding words.
Also Known As
Instrumental case Supportive case With-accompaniment case Comitative case
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