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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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choriambic foursome

Form
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 stanzaic form consisting of four lines built upon the choriambic foot (stressed-unstressed-unstressed-stressed), often used in classical and neoclassical verse.

Detailed Definition
A choriambic foursome is a stanza or metrical grouping of four lines, each predominantly composed of choriambic feet (— ∪ ∪ —); this form creates a cohesive rhythmic block that mirrors the symmetry of classical strophic odes, frequently used to articulate a complete thought or emotional arc in ceremonial or dramatic poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Choriambic foursome appears in Pindar’s victory odes, structured in choriambic quatrains; In Catullus 61, wedding hymns use choriambic foursomes for ceremonial rhythm; Swinburne’s “Atalanta in Calydon” adapts the form for dramatic intensity; A.M. Juster’s translations of Horace preserve choriambic foursomes in English; Contemporary poet Timothy Steele uses choriambic foursomes in “Sapphics and Alcaics” to honor classical meter.
Additional Notes
choriambic foursome|Likely another term for the choriambic four-measure or a group of four metrical feet or lines that are predominantly choriambic.
Also Known As
choriambic quartet four-choriamb unit choriambic foursome pattern Choriambic quatrain
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