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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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

Consonantal caesura

Device
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 caesura placed immediately after a consonant sound to create a hard rhythmic break.

Detailed Definition
A Consonantal caesura is a metrical pause within a line marked not by punctuation but by a cluster of consonants that create a natural break in vocal flow (e.g., “bright|black”); this subtle technique allows poets to control rhythm and emphasis without syntactic interruption, enhancing musicality through phonetic texture—common in alliterative verse like “Beowulf” or modern poets like Seamus Heaney, who use consonantal density to evoke landscape and labor.
Example
Example in poetry:
Caesura marked by consonant clash: “Break, break, break / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!” (Tennyson); “And drunkards reel / With bloodshot eyes” (consonantal break); Creates rhythmic tension through abrupt stops
Additional Notes
Caesura created by consonant cluster rather than syntax. Rare technical term. Related to phonetic caesura. Study tip: Feel the pause created by sound, not grammar; affects reading pace.
Also Known As
Consonant pause Hard-stop caesura Obstruent break Consonantal-stop rest
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