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

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Hemipes

Foot
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

Half of a metrical foot, typically used in classical prosody to describe incomplete or truncated measures

Detailed Definition
Hemipes denotes half a metrical foot and is primarily a technical term in classical prosody, especially in the analysis of Greek and Latin verse where feet are quantitatively measured; it rarely applies directly to English poetry but may describe syllabic fragments in catalectic lines or serve as a theoretical construct when scanning irregular or transitional metrical passages.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hemipes refers to half a metrical foot, often used in catalectic lines; In Greek iambic trimeter, a hemipes may truncate the final syllable; Latin poets use hemipes to create abrupt endings for emphasis; In English, a line like “Stop!” could be seen as a hemipes of a trochee; It’s common in choral lyric where dance rhythms require shortened beats; Hemipes contributes to rhythmic variety in strophic poetry.
Additional Notes
Hemipes: Half of a metrical foot or half-foot, used in analytical prosody to describe incomplete or transitional rhythmic units; helpful when discussing catalexis or irregular line endings in Greek lyric or dramatic verse.
Also Known As
Hemipes foot
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