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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I 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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Anacreontic four-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

A four-foot (tetrameter) line in the Anacreontic meter, typically combining iambic and dactylic elements to evoke convivial or lyrical themes.

Detailed Definition
Anacreontic four-foot line is a verse line of four feet in the style associated with Anacreon, typically featuring light, graceful rhythms suitable for poems celebrating wine, love, and pleasure. While classical Anacreontic verse used various Greek meters, English Anacreontic four-foot lines often employ iambic or trochaic patterns with a lilting quality that evokes the original's spirit of playful hedonism. The measure suits convivial themes and maintains an easy, conversational tone.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anacreontic four-foot lines (˘ ˘ ‒ ‒) evoke light, convivial themes: Horace’s Odes (e.g., I.36) celebrate wine and friendship; Thomas Moore’s “Anacreontic Song” mimics Greek revelry; Ben Jonson’s “Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes” uses the meter for amorous toast; modern parodies appear in light verse like Ogden Nash’s playful quatrains; Ezra Pound’s “Cantico del Sole” adapts Anacreontic spirit with free-meter homage.
Additional Notes
Anacreontic four-foot is a line of verse consisting of four metrical feet in the style of Anacreon (a ∪∪−∪−−∪−∪−∪ pattern is common), which is usually light, lyrical, and focused on themes of love and wine; also Anacreontic tetrameter.
Also Known As
Anacreontic tetrameter Four-foot Anacreontic Bacchic stanza line
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