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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Accumulated rhyme

Rhyme
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 rhyme produced by a buildup of sounds spread across several words or syllables

Detailed Definition
A technique where rhymes build up or gather throughout a poem, increasing in frequency, or where multiple words rhyme with a single sound, creating a sense of accumulation or gathering force. This can involve progressive intensification of rhyme density, or clustering multiple rhyming words around a single sound to create acoustic emphasis. The technique differs from standard rhyme schemes by varying rhyme frequency or concentration, often building toward climactic moments or creating sections of heightened musicality within larger structures.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Raven,” Poe accumulates internal and end rhymes (“nevermore,” “Lenore,” “door”) to build sonic dread; Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle” layers rhymes (“rage,” “age,” “dying of the light”) for emotional crescendo; Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “The Windhover” uses dense assonance and consonance as accumulated rhyme; Emily Dickinson’s slant-rhyme chains (“room,” “storm,” “form”) create subtle accumulative tension; Contemporary poet Terrance Hayes builds accumulated rhyme through repeated refrains in “American Sonnet” series.
Additional Notes
Accumulated rhyme occurs when multiple lines build toward a shared rhyme sound, often intensifying emotional or thematic focus; differs from simple repetition by layering variations before resolution.
Also Known As
Gathered rhyme Accumulative rhyme Clustering rhyme Aggregate rhyme
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