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.

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 E

echoic cadence

Sound
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 closing rhythm that mirrors earlier sounds, creating resonance or echo

Detailed Definition
Echoic cadence is a rhythmic and sonic pattern in poetry where the closing sounds or stresses of lines subtly mirror or “echo” earlier phrasing, creating aural resonance that reinforces thematic recurrence or emotional undertow; more nuanced than simple rhyme, this technique uses assonance, consonance, or metrical symmetry to produce a haunting, reverberant effect, as in the closing lines of Keats’s odes where sound echoes longing.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tennyson’s "The Lotus-Eaters" uses echoic cadence: "Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, / Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes"; Poe’s "The Raven" ends lines with echoing vowels: "And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain"; Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn" closes with resonant repetition: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"; Whitman’s "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" mimics wave rhythms through sonic recurrence.
Additional Notes
Echoic cadence describes a rhythmic or sonic pattern that mimics natural sounds (wind, water, footsteps) or emotional states (grief’s sigh, joy’s skip), enhancing mood through auditory texture. It’s not just onomatopoeia but a holistic sonic architecture—e.g., the lulling cadence in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” Students should read aloud to detect how consonance, assonance, and meter collaborate to produce echoic effects, often linked to “musical meter.”
Also Known As
Resonant cadence Reverberant close Echoing rhythm Sonic afterglow Imitative rhythm mimetic beat mirrored rhythm
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