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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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Dipodic stanza

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

A stanza divided into two balanced metrical halves or “podes,” common in classical lyric and creating rhythmic symmetry or call-and-response.

Detailed Definition
Dipody stanza organizes verse into units of two metrical feet (a dipody), treating each pair as a single rhythmic cell; this structure, common in classical quantitative meters like iambic trimeter (which is three dipodies), provides a balanced, bipartite cadence that enhances musicality and phrasing clarity.
Example
Example in poetry:
A dipodic stanza in Old English poetry like “The Wanderer” uses two primary stresses per half-line, creating a dipodic rhythm; In Anglo-Saxon verse, dipodic stanzas structure lines around alliterative stress pairs; Modern adaptations like Ezra Pound’s “The Seafarer” translation retain dipodic stanza form; Some nursery rhymes use dipodic stanzas with two strong beats per line (“Hickory dickory dock”)

Dipody stanza: two metrical feet per line—common in Greek lyric and nursery rhyme; “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” uses trochaic dipody; Sappho’s fragments often employ dipodic structures for intimacy; A minimalist poem: “Go now. / Stay here.”; Dipody creates rhythmic simplicity ideal for song or incantation.
Additional Notes
A dipodic stanza has two metrical feet per line, creating a compact, rhythmic unit; common in hymns and nursery rhymes, it offers brevity and musicality ideal for mnemonic or ritual use.

Stanza organized around dipodic (two-foot) metrical units. Creates ballad-like lilt. Related to common meter and folk forms. Each dipody functions as rhythmic entity.
Also Known As
Two-beat measure Bipedal verse Dual-foot stanza Dipody stanza two-beat stanza Double-foot stanza Paired-measure verse
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