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

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End-word 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 matching the final stressed vowel and any following sounds of words at the ends of poetic lines (e.g., “light” / “bright”).

Detailed Definition
The most common rhyme position in English poetry, where corresponding sounds occur at line endings according to specific schemes like couplets, alternate rhyme, or more complex patterns. Traditional forms from sonnets to ballads depend on end-word rhyme schemes denoted ABAB, AABB, ABCABC, etc. Easier for audiences to perceive than internal rhyme, end-word rhyme provides structural framework and satisfying sonic returns. Can be perfect rhyme with identical sounds, slant rhyme with approximate correspondence, or eye rhyme matching spelling but not sound. Mastery requires achieving rhyme that feels natural rather than forced.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rhyme occurring at line endings in standard position; The regular rhyme scheme of sonnets (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG); Couplet rhymes concluding verses; Traditional end-rhyme in ballad quatrains
Additional Notes
The most common rhyme position in English poetry, occurring at line endings. Couplets, quatrains, and most stanza forms use end-word rhyme. Easier to hear than internal rhyme. Can be perfect (cat/hat) or slant (cat/cot). Traditional forms depend on end-word rhyme schemes: ABAB, AABB, ABCABC, etc.
Also Known As
end-line rhyme terminal rhyme closing sound match line-ending correspondence Epistrophic Rhyme
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