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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classical line

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 line type used in ancient poetry, often in quantitative meter patterns

Detailed Definition
A classical line refers to a verse line constructed using meters from ancient Greek or Latin poetry, such as hexameter or pentameter, adhering to strict quantitative rhythm based on syllable length. Classical lines emphasize formal precision, balance, and musicality, often employed in translations and neoclassical works that seek to preserve the grandeur of antiquity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Classical line: Homer’s dactylic hexameter—“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles”; Virgil’s “Arma virumque cano” establishes epic tone through meter; Dryden’s translations mimic classical balance in heroic couplets; Modern poets like Rachel Hadas use classical lines for meditative gravity; Such lines prioritize dignity, clarity, and rhythmic tradition.
Additional Notes
A classical line is a verse line shaped by ancient Greek or Latin metrical practice, especially quantitative meter based on long and short syllables rather than English stress. Dactylic hexameter is the best-known epic line, but classical verse also uses elegiac couplets, sapphics, and other patterns. English imitations often adapt quantity into stress. Scan the line according to its language and tradition; do not assume every “classical” line is hexameter.
Also Known As
Hexameter line Classical measure Heroic line Hexameter
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