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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Greek extended pentameter

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

An eleven-syllable pentameter line inspired by Greek quantitative meter, extending the standard decasyllabic form for rhythmic variation.

Detailed Definition
Greek extended pentameter refers to a five-foot line in ancient Greek verse that incorporates additional syllables or metrical variations beyond the standard pattern, often used in elegiac couplets or choral lyrics to enhance lyrical intensity; though rare, it demonstrates the adaptability of classical meter to emotional or thematic demands.
Example
Example in poetry:
An English pentameter line extended to 11 syllables with classical influence: “The Muses sang where Helicon’s springs flow”; A hybrid line: “Apollo’s lyre sounds through the silent grove” (5 feet + 1 syllable = 11); “In Delphi’s shade the oracles once spoke” (iambic pentameter with feminine ending, 11 syllables); “The nymphs dance softly by the moonlit stream” (modeled on Greek pentameter extensions)
Additional Notes
Greek extended pentameter adapts the elegiac couplet’s pentameter line into a longer form, sometimes blending with hexameter; it balances closure and flow, ideal for reflective or transitional passages.
Also Known As
Extended Greek pentameter Hellenic five-foot expansion elongated elegiac line augmented pentametric form Hendecasyllabic pentameter
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