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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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Aeolic meter

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 family of meters found in Aeolic Greek lyric poetry, notably Sappho and Alcaeus

Detailed Definition
The metrical system associated with Greek Aeolic poetry, particularly Sappho and Alcaeus, characterized by flexible mixing of various metrical feet and rhythmic freedom within established patterns. Aeolic meter includes forms like Sapphic, Alcaic, and glyconic, featuring choriambs and other varied feet. This system emphasizes musical beauty and rhythmic grace over strict regularity, allowing poets substantial flexibility while maintaining recognizable metrical structures. Aeolic meter influenced later European lyric traditions seeking musical fluidity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Aeolic meter includes Sapphic stanzas (three glyconics + adonic), Alcaic quatrains, and asclepiadean forms; it’s characterized by choriambic nuclei and asymmetrical feet; Horace’s Odes are prime Latin examples adapting Greek Aeolic meters; Anne Carson’s “The Beauty of the Husband” uses Aeolic meters to frame marital elegy; contemporary poet A.M. Juster writes original poems in strict Aeolic meters; unlike dactylic hexameter, Aeolic meter favors lyrical subjectivity over narrative sweep.
Additional Notes
Aeolic meter encompasses the lyric meters of Sappho and Alcaeus, including Sapphic and Alcaic stanzas; known for musicality, emotional directness, and irregular but patterned rhythms.
Also Known As
Aeolic rhythm Aeolic scansion Aeolic poetic meter Aeolic verse Greek middle meter
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