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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Consistent couplet

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

Two successive lines that maintain uniform meter, rhyme, and thematic cohesion

Detailed Definition
A consistent couplet is a pair of successive rhymed lines that maintain uniformity in meter (typically iambic pentameter in heroic couplets), rhyme scheme (AA), and thematic focus throughout a poem or section. This consistency creates rhythmic predictability and rhetorical clarity, making the form ideal for satire, philosophical argument, or epigrammatic wit, as seen in the works of Alexander Pope or John Dryden. While risk of monotony exists, skilled poets vary syntax, imagery, or enjambment within the couplet structure to sustain interest, ensuring that formal regularity enhances rather than constrains expressive range.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The sun sets slow behind the hill, / And night arrives with quiet will.”; “She wept for love she could not keep, / While stars above began to leap.”; “The river flows, the mountains stand, / Time moves with an unseen hand.”; “In spring the flowers bloom anew, / In winter skies are cold and blue.”; “His words were sharp, her silence deep, / Secrets only shadows keep.”
Additional Notes
A consistent couplet maintains uniform meter, rhyme, and thematic focus across paired lines, often used in heroic couplets (iambic pentameter, AA rhyme). Consistency builds rhythm and rhetorical clarity but risks monotony; skilled poets vary syntax or imagery within the form to sustain interest. Ideal for satire, epigrams, or philosophical verse where balance reinforces argument.
Also Known As
pure-meter couplet Uniform two-line
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