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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

Home › Glossary › Letter D

Dipodic

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 metrical structure in which two feet are grouped and perceived as a single rhythmic unit, common in classical quantitative meters like iambic dimeter.

Detailed Definition
Dipodic describes a metrical system where two metrical feet are grouped as a single rhythmic unit or “dipody,” common in classical lyric meters like the Sapphic stanza; in English, dipodic verse may alternate strong and weak beats in pairs, creating a double-pulse rhythm that feels more chant-like than standard accentual-syllabic patterns.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Anglo-Saxon poetry like “Beowulf,” dipodic meter uses two-stress half-lines (“Hwæt! We Gardena / in geardagum”); In Gerard Manley Hopkins’ sprung rhythm, dipodic lines drive intensity (“The world is charged / with the grandeur of God”); In W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” dipodic pulses structure elegiac reflection; In modern poetry, Kay Ryan uses dipodic lines in “Turtle” for compressed philosophy; In Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips,” dipodic rhythm asserts bodily presence.
Additional Notes
Relating to dipody or two-foot metrical unit treated as single entity. Common in ballad meter and folk verse. Creates swing or lilt rhythm. Study alongside accentual-syllabic prosody.
Also Known As
Double-foot meter Paired-foot rhythm Two-beat measure
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