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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.

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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Consonantal rhyme

Rhyme
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 rhyme based on consonant correspondence while vowel sounds differ (e.g., “blank” / “balk”), a form of half- or slant rhyme.

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Rhyme — Rhyme is more than a matching sound at the ends of lines. This guide explores how poets use rhyme to organise language, create expectation, make connections between words and alter what we hear when a poem is read or sung.

Detailed Definition
Consonant rhyme, also known as consonance when used as end rhyme, is a type of imperfect or slant rhyme based on matching consonant sounds while vowel sounds differ. For example, "boat" and "bit" share consonant structures but differ in vowels. This technique provides the satisfying echo of rhyme while avoiding the sometimes predictable or sing-song quality of perfect rhyme. Consonant rhyme allows poets greater flexibility in word choice while maintaining sonic connection between lines. It's particularly valued in modern poetry for creating subtle acoustic relationships that suggest rather than insist upon connection.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died,” the consonantal rhyme of “buzz” and “Blue” links through /z/ and /b/ sounds without vowel match; In Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover,” “dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon” uses /d/ and /n/ consonantal echoes; In Paul Muldoon’s “Why Brownlee Left,” “ploughed” and “cloud” share /l/ and /d/ consonants; In Old English poetry like “Beowulf,” “helm” and “hilt” create consonantal rhyme through alliterative /h/; In contemporary poetry, Terrance Hayes uses consonantal rhyme in “American Sonnet” with “knife” and “knave” sharing /n/ and /v/.

Consonant rhyme: "Struts/frets" sharing t-sounds but different vowels; Wilfred Owen's "hall/hell" and "moan/mourn"; Words matching final consonants like "stopped/apt"; Half-rhymes based on consonant agreement
Additional Notes
Consonantal rhyme|A form of near rhyme (consonance) where the final consonant sounds are the same, but the preceding vowels are different (e.g., shape/keep); less musical than perfect rhyme but creates a subtler acoustic link.

Consonant rhyme|Rhyme that depends on the repetition of consonant sounds while vowel sounds may differ; sometimes overlaps with half rhyme or slant rhyme.
Also Known As
Consonant rhyme Half-rhyme Slant rhyme Oblique rhyme Ablative rhyme half rhyme slant consonance oblique rhyme Alliterative rhyme Consonance
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