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.

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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Alphabet Rhyme

Education
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 alphabet rhyme is a verse that uses the letters of the alphabet in sequence, often assigning a word, image, or rhyming line to each letter. It is commonly used to teach literacy, sound patterns, and poetic play.

Detailed Definition
Alphabet rhymes combine early reading instruction with the memorable rhythms and repeated sounds of verse. Some follow the alphabet from A to Z, while others use selected letters to organize short rhyming couplets or stanzas. Their regular sequence helps learners anticipate what comes next, and rhyme strengthens attention to phonics, pronunciation, and word families. In poetry classrooms, alphabet rhymes appear as models of constraint-based writing: students must make imaginative choices while following an ordered framework, discovering that rules can generate playful language and inventive imagery.
Example
Example in poetry:
A beginner writes an alphabet rhyme in which each couplet begins with the next letter, from “A is for apple” through “Z is for zinnia”; Students compose an alphabet rhyme about animals, using rhyme pairs such as “bear” and “hare” for the letter B; A class creates a collaborative alphabet rhyme about poetry vocabulary, including “M is for metaphor, making language soar”; A poet uses an alphabet rhyme as a constraint, ensuring that each new stanza introduces the next letter of the alphabet
Additional Notes
Alphabet rhymes support letter recognition, sequencing, and sound play, particularly in early-literacy settings. Notice whether the alphabet supplies only an organizing order or whether each letter also shapes rhyme, alliteration, and imagery. Compare traditional abecedarians with contemporary poems that use alphabetical order more experimentally.
Also Known As
Alphabetical Rhyme ABC Rhyme Alphabet Verse Letter Rhyme Alphabet song
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