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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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Eight-measure triple rhythm

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 rhythmic pattern consisting of eight units, each containing three beats or subdivisions

Detailed Definition
Eight-measure triple rhythm is a metrical pattern consisting of eight units (measures), each containing three beats, creating a lilting, waltz-like cadence; common in hymns, folk ballads, and lyrical narrative verse, it provides steady momentum and musicality, well-suited to meditative or celebratory themes that benefit from rhythmic regularity and grace.
Example
Example in poetry:
Eight-measure triple rhythm uses three beats per measure across eight lines, as in some hymns: “O God, our help in ages past, / Our hope for years to come”; In Longfellow’s “The Psalm of Life,” triple rhythm appears: “Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / Life is but an empty dream!”; Another example: “The wind sings low through the pines tonight, / a lullaby of stars and snow”; Though rare in modern poetry, it echoes in nursery rhymes with trochaic trimeter over eight lines
Additional Notes
Eight-measure triple rhythm uses three beats per measure across eight measures per stanza, creating a lilting, musical cadence; common in hymns and folk traditions, it suits lyrical or narrative verse with steady momentum.
Also Known As
Octave triple meter Triple-time octet Tripartite octastich Eight-measure falling verse Octametric dactyl
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