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

equal-weight 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 in which each syllable or foot carries nearly equal stress or weight, producing a steady, chant-like cadence.

Detailed Definition
Metrical rhythm where syllables, feet, or rhythmic units carry equivalent emphasis or duration, creating sense of rhythmic stability and predictability. In quantitative meter, this refers to equal syllable duration, while in accentual meter it describes evenly distributed stresses. The equal weighting creates rhythmic regularity and formal coherence, distinguishing structured verse from free verse's variable rhythmic patterns.
Example
Example in poetry:
Classical dactylic hexameter maintains equal-weight rhythm through quantitative meter; English iambic pentameter approximates equal-weight through stress; Walt Whitman’s free verse uses parallel phrasing for equal-weight rhythm; Langston Hughes’s jazz poems use syncopated but balanced rhythms; Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” uses equal-weight beats per line; Contemporary spoken word often uses equal-weight rhythm for emphasis.
Additional Notes
Technical metrical term referring to stress distribution in quantitative or accentual verse. Creates sense of rhythmic stability and predictability. Important for understanding traditional English meter.
Also Known As
Isometric rhythm Proportional stress Balanced measure Equipollent meter
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