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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.

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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Anacreontic six-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 hexameter line adapted for Anacreontic themes of wine and revelry.

Detailed Definition
Anacreontic six-foot line extends the verse measure to six feet while maintaining the Anacreontic style's characteristic lightness and grace. This longer line allows for more expansive expression of themes related to pleasure, wine, and love, accommodating elaborate descriptions or extended conceits while preserving the tradition's essential buoyancy. The six-foot Anacreontic line requires skillful handling to avoid heaviness that would contradict the mode's fundamental spirit of effortless celebration.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anacreon’s drinking songs use anacreontic hexameter (u u – u – –); Thomas Moore’s “Anacreontic” imitates the form: “Fill the bowl with rosy wine”; Goethe’s “Mailied” (“Wie herrlich leuchtet mir die Natur!”) adapts anacreontic meter for joyous lyric; the anacreontic six-foot line combines iambic and trochaic elements for lightness; modern poets rarely use it, but it influenced Romantic odes; this meter evokes conviviality, love, and carpe diem themes.
Additional Notes
Anacreontic six-foot is a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet in the Anacreontic style, which is often a rapid, dactylic or choriambic-based rhythm; also known as Anacreontic hexameter.
Also Known As
Anacreontic hexameter Six-foot Anacreontic Extended banquet line
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