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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

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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Diacritical 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

Rhyme that depends on the difference between two similar words, often emphasizing a subtle but significant distinction in meaning or pronunciation.

Detailed Definition
Diacritical rhyme uses accent marks, orthographic distinctions, or linguistic diacritics to create subtle rhyming effects that may be visible but not audible, foregrounding the visual or etymological dimensions of language over pure phonetic correspondence in multilingual or typographic poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Diacritical Rhyme: "He sighed for love, she sighed for pride"—where "sighed" and "pride" rhyme only because of the shared vowel sound despite differing consonants, relying on diacritical marks or pronunciation shifts for effect.
Additional Notes
Rhyme depending on diacritical marks (accents, umlauts) for distinction. Relevant in languages with marked orthography. Creates subtle phonetic relationships. More common in Romance and Slavic language poetry.
Also Known As
Diacritical pairing Accent rhyme Marked rhyme
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