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

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Assembled rhyming pairs

Rhyme
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

Couplets that are assembled or arranged to form a larger poetic sequence, often through thematic or sonic connections; this method allows for modular composition and the building of extended rhyme architectures.

Detailed Definition
Assembled rhyming pairs refer to couplets deliberately constructed from pre-existing or modular poetic fragments that are stitched together to form a cohesive unit, often used in collage poetry or postmodern verse where the emphasis lies on recombination, intertextuality, and the disruption of linear narrative through strategic rhyming juxtapositions.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Roses are red, violets are blue / Sugar is sweet, and so are you” demonstrates a classic rhyming pair; Shakespeare’s sonnet couplets like “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” form assembled rhyming pairs; nursery rhymes such as “Jack and Jill went up the hill / To fetch a pail of water” rely on simple rhyming pairs; Emily Dickinson’s slant-rhyme pairs like “room” and “storm” show inventive assembly.
Additional Notes
Assembled rhyming pairs describe couplets intentionally grouped or curated from disparate sources or moments; may appear in mosaic or patchwork compositions—useful for thematic juxtaposition or fragmented narratives.
Also Known As
Curated couplets matched rhymes paired verses assembled duos Couplet patchwork distich mosaic
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