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

Extreme catalexis tetrameter

Meter
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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 tetrameter line missing two or more final syllables, creating a starkly truncated close that emphasizes abruptness or emotional rupture.

Detailed Definition
Extreme catalexis tetrameter describes a four-beat line missing two or more final syllables, creating a stark, abrupt ending that emphasizes the last stressed syllable; this radical truncation produces dramatic pause, tension, or rhythmic instability, often in dramatic or martial verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Extreme catalexis tetrameter appears in Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” where lines like “As I gain the cove with pushing prow” drop final unstressed syllables for urgency; In A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young,” extreme catalexis tetrameter sharpens elegiac rhythm (“The time you won your town the race”); In Emily Dickinson’s hymn-meter poems, extreme catalexis tetrameter creates abrupt closure; In Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush,” extreme catalexis tetrameter enhances desolation (“The land’s sharp features seemed to be”)
Additional Notes
Extreme catalexis tetrameter is a four-foot line missing two or more final syllables, creating abruptness or urgency; catalexis shortens expected meter for dramatic or rhythmic effect.
Also Known As
Severely truncated tetrameter Hyper-catalectic line Radically shortened meter Doubly-shortened four-foot dactylic Ultra-curtailed four-measure verse
Skip to main content