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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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Adonic pentameter

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

A classical metrical form composed of a dactyl followed by a trochee, repeated five times, producing a falling-rising rhythm; named after the mythic figure Adonis and used in Greek lyric for its graceful motion.

Detailed Definition
Adonic pentameter: A metrical line composed of five Adonic feet. As established, an Adonic foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (/ x), which is equivalent to a trochee. Consequently, an Adonic pentameter would be a line of ten syllables structured in a trochaic pattern (e.g., da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM). Like the Adonic hexameter, this meter is not commonly found in English poetry, as the predominantly falling rhythm of trochaic tetrameter or trimeter feels less natural for sustained lyrical or narrative purposes in English compared to rising meters like iambic pentameter. The concept is primarily of historical interest, originating from ancient Greek and Latin prosody. Its study is valuable for understanding the full spectrum of metrical possibilities explored in classical antiquity, even if these structures were eventually superseded in English poetry by accentual-syllabic systems better suited to the language's own rhythmic tendencies.
Example
Example in poetry:
Adonic pentameter is a misnomer; pentameter implies five feet, but Adonic is a two-foot unit—this may refer to a pentameter line ending with an Adonic cadence, as in some Sapphic adaptations: “Waves crash, winds howl, stars fall, time flies, love dies.”
Additional Notes
Five-foot line ending in Adonic rhythm. Unusual—pentameter typically maintains uniform feet. Creates unexpected variation in closing. Mostly theoretical construct.
Also Known As
Adonic five-foot line Short pentameter Adonic middle line
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