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

Home › Glossary › Letter J

Juncture

Prosody
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 prosodic boundary between words or phrases, marked by pause or intonation to clarify meaning and rhythm in verse.

Detailed Definition
Juncture defines transitional pauses or links in poetic lines, guiding scansion and interpretation through subtle sonic cues like breath or stress shifts. In Browning's dramatic monologues, it delineates thought units for psychological depth; its role in literature is structural, preventing ambiguity while pacing delivery—appearing in narrative poetry, it mirrors conversational flow, enhancing realism and thematic clarity, thus prosody becomes a tool for nuanced expression, bridging sound and sense.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Browning's "My Last Duchess," juncture pauses after "That's my last Duchess" clarify dramatic irony; Eliot's "Prufrock" uses juncture at "Do I dare?" for hesitant rhythm; Example: "The door opens: slowly" marks juncture with colon for pause; In epic similes, juncture divides descriptive units; For learners, identify junctures in free verse for phrasing.|In Whitman’s catalogs, juncture links items with subtle breaks; Practice punctuating junctures in monologue poetry.
Additional Notes
Juncture marks boundaries for phrasing, essential for students reciting dramatic monologues, linked to caesura; Browning uses it for psychological pauses; experts: intonation in suprasegmentals; tip: punctuate junctures with colons in analysis to clarify rhythm, teaching how it shapes meaning and pacing in conversational verse.
Also Known As
prosodic boundary phrase pause joint
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