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.

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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full-line 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

A rhyme involving the repetition or echo of an entire line’s sound pattern

Detailed Definition
Full-line rhyme occurs when entire lines of poetry rhyme with one another, either consecutively (AA BB) or in alternating patterns, creating strong sonic closure and structural symmetry; common in nursery rhymes, ballads, and heroic couplets, it emphasizes memorability and rhythmic satisfaction, though modern poets often avoid it as overly sing-song, preferring slant or internal rhyme for subtler effects—yet when used deliberately (as in Pope), it can achieve epigrammatic force and satirical precision.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” full-line rhyme unites “Lenore” and “nevermore” across stanzas; In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” full-line rhyme links moral and supernatural: “water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink”; In Emily Dickinson, slant full-line rhyme appears: “Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –”; In Langston Hughes’ “The Weary Blues,” full-line rhyme echoes blues structure: “He did a lazy sway… / He made that poor piano moan with melody”; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” full-line rhyme closes with fatalism: “We / Die soon”; In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” full-line rhyme intensifies rage: “I’m finally through.”
Additional Notes
Full-line rhyme matches entire lines or long phrases in sound, not just end words. Related to total rhyme and orthographic rhyme. Creates incantatory effect—common in nursery rhymes or ritual verse; test audibility to ensure it lands clearly.
Also Known As
Monorhymed line Full-line chime Perfect line rhyme Complete rhyme line
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