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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Airy couplet

Form
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 light, delicate two-line verse form that conveys elegance or simplicity.

Detailed Definition
An airy couplet is a brief, two-line poetic form characterized by lightness in tone, delicacy in imagery, and often a whimsical or ethereal quality. It typically uses simple but vivid language to evoke gentle scenes or sensations, creating a fleeting snapshot that feels unburdened and open. This form can suit nature poetry, romantic sentiments, or playful observations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Alexander Pope’s heroic couplets often verge on the Airy couplet through light irony: “To err is human, to forgive, divine”; Dorothy Parker’s witty closure—“Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses”—exemplifies the Airy couplet’s breezy tone; Ogden Nash’s humorous rhymes (“The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk”) use Airy couplets for levity; modern poets like Billy Collins employ Airy couplets to undercut gravitas with conversational ease
Additional Notes
Effective for quick, vivid imagery with delicate words; works well with themes of lightness and transience.
Also Known As
Light couplet Delicate two-liner Ethereal couplet
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