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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 F

Foot interruption

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 break within a metrical foot or substitution that disrupts regular rhythmic expectations

Detailed Definition
Foot interruption refers to a deliberate break or substitution within a metrical foot—such as a spondee in an iambic line or a trochee in dactylic verse—that disrupts expected rhythm to signal emphasis, tension, or thematic dissonance; this technique, used by Milton (“Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death”) and Hopkins, makes meter responsive to meaning, where prosodic “stumbles” mirror psychological or cosmic upheaval.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover,” foot interruption via sprung rhythm breaks expected meter: “I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-”; T.S. Eliot interrupts iambic flow in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: “In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo”; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” caesurae create foot interruptions: “We / Left school”; Contemporary poet Danez Smith uses foot interruption in “not an elegy for Mike Brown” to fracture elegiac expectation; Shakespeare’s Macbeth uses foot interruption for psychological unease: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”; In Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus,” foot interruption mirrors bodily fragmentation.
Additional Notes
Breaking the pattern by removing or interrupting a foot; creates contrast and draws attention. Substitution or omission. Use for emphasis or disruption. Study Hopkins’ sprung rhythm. Enhances dynamic range. Ensure intentional effect. Effective for emotional peaks.
Also Known As
Foot omission Metrical interruption Rhythm break Line disruption Hypermetric interruption
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