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. 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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Dropped ending 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 created by truncating or clipping the final syllables of words, producing an abrupt, shortened sonic match; it adds surprise, compresses the line, and often appears in colloquial or comic verse.

Detailed Definition
Dropped ending rhyme occurs when a line’s final word is omitted but implied by the rhyme scheme, creating a ghostly or anticipatory effect; this technique relies on the reader’s expectation of sonic closure, using absence to heighten tension or suggest incompleteness, as in elliptical or fragmentary modernist verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Raven,” Poe uses dropped ending rhyme (“Lenore”/“nevermore” echoes without closure); Emily Dickinson often drops expected end rhymes for tension; W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” omits rhyme in final lines for apocalyptic effect; Contemporary poet Kay Ryan uses dropped ending rhyme to sustain unease; Dropped ending rhyme appears in free verse that hints at but avoids pattern.
Additional Notes
Dropped ending rhyme: A rhyme where the final sound or syllable is omitted or weakened in the rhyming word, creating an almost-rhyme that subtly undercuts the expected sonic conclusion. Related: Slant rhyme.
Also Known As
Falling-off rhyme Dropped close rhyme Abandoned ending rhyme Broken-off rhyme Apocopic rhyme
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