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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

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Added foot

Meter
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

An extra metrical foot inserted into a line, disrupting or extending the standard pattern

Detailed Definition
An added foot is a metrical foot inserted into a line of poetry beyond the established pattern, often used to create rhythmic variation, emphasize a particular idea, or disrupt expected cadence; for example, adding an extra iamb to an iambic pentameter line yields a hexameter effect that can signal emotional intensity or thematic disruption.
Example
Example in poetry:
In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, an extra unstressed syllable is added at the end of some lines, creating an added foot for haunting effect; Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129 ends with a hypermetrical line: “All this the world well knows; yet none knows well / To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell”—the final line slightly exceeds strict iambic pentameter; In "Ode to a Nightingale," Keats occasionally inserts an added foot to mirror emotional overflow: “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”; Milton’s "Paradise Lost" sometimes uses an added foot in blank verse to emphasize grandeur or disruption.
Additional Notes
An added foot is an extra metrical foot inserted into a line, often to emphasize emotion, disrupt rhythm, or signal a thematic shift; common in dramatic or lyrical poetry to mimic natural speech or heighten intensity; related to hypermetrical lines and catalexis (the opposite, where a foot is omitted).
Also Known As
Extra metrical foot Hypermetric foot Surplus syllable Added metrical unit Extra-metrical Foot addition Extrametrical
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