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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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duple meter

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

Metrical pattern with two-syllable feet, such as iambs or trochees

Detailed Definition
duple meter: Metrical patterns based on two-syllable feet such as iambs and trochees, creating binary rhythmic units alternating between unstressed and stressed syllables. Duple meter contrasts with triple meter (three-syllable feet) and provides the foundation for much English-language poetry. The two-beat pulse of duple meter feels natural to English speech patterns and walking rhythms, creating accessible, regular patterns. Understanding duple meter is fundamental to prosodic analysis and reveals how binary rhythmic organization shapes reader experience, creating expectations and emphases through alternating strong and weak positions.
Example
Example in poetry:
In nursery rhymes like “Jack and Jill,” duple meter (da-DUM da-DUM) creates sing-song rhythm; In Emily Dickinson’s hymn stanzas, alternating tetrameter and trimeter use duple meter; In Robert Burns’ “A Red, Red Rose,” duple meter structures folk-song simplicity; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” duple meter drives youthful defiance; In modern poetry, Kay Ryan uses duple meter in “Turtle” for compressed philosophy.
Additional Notes
Duple meter features two-syllable feet like iambs or trochees. This creates a binary, marching rhythm suitable for ballads, songs, and narrative verse, providing clear, simple rhythmic structure.
Also Known As
Binary meter Two-beat rhythm Duple time Double-time meter Dimeter Disemic
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