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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.

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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Double-short four-foot

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 four-foot line incorporating double-short (pyrrhic) metrical elements

Detailed Definition
Double-short four-foot describes a four-foot line in which each foot contains two short (unstressed) syllables, producing a swift, breathless cadence; though rare in English prosody, it may appear in playful or highly stylized verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A tetrameter line such as “˘ ˘ – – | ˘ ˘ – – | ˘ ˘ – – | ˘ ˘ – –” using four Ionic feet with double-short beginnings; In English adaptation: “The quick bright birds flew south at dawn” with two unstressed syllables opening each foot; A reconstructed line from Anacreon: “μηδέ τις ἄλλος ἔπειτα” featuring pyrrhic-trochaic combinations; A metrical experiment using “in the soft light of morning” as a double-short tetrameter approximation.
Additional Notes
Double-short four-foot denotes a tetrameter with pyrrhic elements; used in Greek lyric and occasionally imitated in English for rhythmic variation; not a standard English meter.
Also Known As
Pyrrhic tetrameter Ionic tetrameter variant Four-foot pyrrhic line Ionic tetrameter
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