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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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Hypermetrical 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

Iambic pentameter containing an extra unstressed syllable at the end of the line

Detailed Definition
Hypermetrical pentameter describes an iambic pentameter line that includes an extra unstressed syllable at the end (a feminine ending), subtly extending the rhythm without disrupting the five-beat core; this variation adds lyrical softness or hesitation, often used for emotional nuance or emphasis.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 87 ends with hypermetrical pentameter: “Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter”; Milton occasionally adds a sixth stress in “Paradise Lost” for emphasis, creating hypermetrical pentameter; Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” includes lines like “Already with thee! tender is the night” with an extra unstressed syllable; Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” sometimes uses hypermetrical pentameter to mirror natural speech.
Additional Notes
Hypermetrical pentameter adds an extra unstressed syllable to iambic pentameter (making 11 syllables); creates emphasis, hesitation, or emotional overflow; common in Shakespeare and Milton; not the same as a feminine ending, though related.
Also Known As
Hypermetric line Extended pentameter Surplus-beat verse Overlong heroic line Extended iambic pentameter Extra-syllable five-foot
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