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.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this 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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Brachylogus

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 metrical foot consisting of one long syllable followed by three short syllables

Detailed Definition
Brachylogus: A specific metrical foot, also known as a "short-long" foot, which consists of two syllables: a short (or unstressed) syllable followed by a long (or stressed) syllable (x /). This foot is identical in sound pattern to the trochee, a common metrical foot in English poetry. The term "brachylogus" is derived from Greek, where "brachys" means "short" and "logos" means "word" or "measure." While the concept is clear, the provided sources do not indicate any significant use of the brachylogus foot in English poetry. It is primarily a term of theoretical prosody, included in lists of metrical feet to show the full range of possible two-syllable units. Its study is valuable for understanding the finer distinctions made in classical prosody, even if its terminology is not widely used in the analysis of English verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Brachylogus appears in Greek epigrams: “Stranger, report to Spartans we lie here, obedient to their laws” (Simonides); concise, aphoristic style conveys maximum meaning in minimal words; modern example: W.S. Merwin’s haiku-like poems (“Leaving the empty house”); brachylogus favors implication over exposition; it’s common in epitaphs and wisdom literature; this technique values density and resonance.
Additional Notes
Ancient term for brief, concise speaker or expression. Historical rhetoric term. Related: brachylogia, laconic. Rarely used in modern criticism but foundational to understanding classical brevity values.
Also Known As
Brief expression concise statement abbreviated form compressed phrase
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