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

extra-syllabic

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

Containing more syllables than prescribed by the standard metrical pattern

Detailed Definition
Extra-syllabic refers to syllables that fall outside the expected metrical count of a poetic line, often occurring in feminine endings (an unstressed syllable after a metrical foot), anacrusis (an initial unstressed syllable before the first beat), or hypermetrical tags; rather than disrupting rhythm, extra-syllabic elements can enhance musicality, create suspense, or signal emotional overflow, as in Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter lines that end with an eleventh syllable (“To be, or not to be: that is the question”), where the added syllable softens closure or mirrors psychological hesitation, demonstrating how metrical flexibility serves expressive nuance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Line containing excess syllables beyond meter; Hypermetrical padding in verse; Poetic line spilling over set syllable count; Extra syllables for rhythmic surprise.
Additional Notes
A metrical line carrying more syllables than its prescribed pattern requires, often through an added unstressed syllable or elision failure. Usually intentional, creating rhythmic looseness or conversational tone. Related to the feminine ending and hypercatalexis. Contrasts with catalectic lines that are deficient. Learners should scan such lines carefully to distinguish intentional variation from error.
Also Known As
Hypermetrical line Overfilled verse line Extra-metrical expression Long syllabic line Hypercatalectic
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