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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Hybrid catalectic

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 hybrid meter mixing different foot types that is made catalectic through truncation of the final foot, clipping syllables from the mixed metrical pattern to create an incomplete ending that combines the qualities of the blended feet with sudden closure.

Detailed Definition
Hybrid catalectic shortens blends, for sudden shifts. It jars; poets use it for tension, reflecting hybrid identities in verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hybrid catalectic combines multiple meters with truncation, as in "The wind, it blows, the night is cold" (hybrid catalectic); "The stars, they shine, the air is still" (hybrid catalectic); "The fire, it burns, the world is gray" (hybrid catalectic); "The bells, they ring, the day is done" (hybrid catalectic); "The heart, it beats, the soul is free" (hybrid catalectic); "The moon, it rises, night draws near" (hybrid catalectic).
Additional Notes
Hybrid catalectic shortens a mixed-meter line, intensifying its rhythmic instability; the clipped form heightens tension and can signal emotional disruption or irony.
Also Known As
Catalectic hybrid meter truncated mixed meter
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