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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Interlinear 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

Rhyme occurring between words within lines rather than at line endings, creating internal sonic links that enhance cohesion or surprise.

Detailed Definition
Interlinear rhyme is a vertical rhyming pattern where words in the same position across consecutive lines rhyme with each other—such as all first words rhyming, then all second words—creating a columnar sonic architecture; this rare technique produces a dense, woven texture that challenges linear reading and emphasizes simultaneity over sequence, often used in experimental or visual poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Interlinear rhyme matches sounds within lines, not at ends; in “The Raven,” Poe uses “weak and weary” as interlinear rhyme; Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “sprung rhythm” employs dense internal rhyme; modern example: hip-hop lyrics use interlinear rhyme for flow (“I never said I was the best, but I’m better than the rest”); this technique creates sonic texture and momentum; it’s key to oral and musical poetry.
Additional Notes
Interlinear rhyme occurs between words within lines rather than at ends; enriches sonic texture—combine with end rhyme for layered musicality.
Also Known As
Between-line rhyme Mid-verse echo Line-internal correspondence Within-line sound
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