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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

Disyllable

Prosody
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 word or foot consisting of two syllables, fundamental to building metrical patterns in poetry's rhythmic structure.

Detailed Definition
Disyllables form the basic units in prosody, combining stressed and unstressed elements like iambs or trochees to construct lines, providing the scaffolding for verse's musicality. In Wordsworth's lyrical ballads, they ground simple diction in accessible rhythms, reflecting everyday language; their ubiquity stems from mirroring spoken cadences, enabling poets to craft intimacy or momentum—essential in narrative poetry, they allow thematic emphasis through inversion, fostering emotional connection and demonstrating how minimal units scale to epic forms, underscoring prosody's role in democratizing poetic expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Disyllables like iamb "to be" form Shakespeare's basic pentameter in "To be or not to be"; In haiku, disyllables "frost moon" build concise imagery in Bashō's works; Example for class: "The heart beats" uses trochaic disyllable for rhythmic pulse; Milton's blank verse relies on disyllables for steady epic flow in Paradise Lost; A creative use: Chain disyllables in a limerick for bouncy meter.|In Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely," disyllables ground simple language rhythm; Learners compose with disyllables to construct basic feet.
Additional Notes
Disyllables build foundational feet like iambs, essential for beginners to construct meters in sonnets or haiku, related to monosyllables for simplicity; Shakespeare relies on them for dramatic pulse; scholarly note: their role in quantitative vs. accentual systems; usage tip: chain disyllables in exercises to form trimeter, revealing how they scale to complex structures and ground abstract ideas in rhythmic familiarity.
Also Known As
two-syllable word dissyllable Disyllabic
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