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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

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 L

Ladder rhyme

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 rhyme scheme where end words of lines link sequentially, climbing like a ladder to build structural progression in stanzas.

Detailed Definition
Ladder rhyme chains rhymes across lines in a stepwise pattern, creating ascending momentum that unifies stanzas in longer forms like villanelles. In Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle," it reinforces cyclical urgency; its significance lies in architectural cohesion, appearing in modernist poetry to symbolize growth or inevitability—by interlocking sounds, it amplifies repetition's power, fostering memorability and emotional ascent, illustrating prosody's capacity to visualize abstract progression through auditory design.
Example
Example in poetry:
In villanelles like Bishop's "One Art," ladder rhyme chains "master/loss" sequentially for ascending loss; Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill" uses ladder-like rhymes climbing through pastoral nostalgia; Class example: "Day by day / We play away / In may's gay ray" shows ladder progression; In chain poems, ladder rhyme builds stanzaic height; Modern rap battles employ ladder rhymes for escalating wordplay.|In sestinas, ladder elements link end-words cyclically; Students compose ladder rhyme quatrains for structure.
Additional Notes
Ladder rhyme chains sequentially for progression, helping students build villanelle structures, related to chain rhyme; Bishop's examples show ascending unity; advanced: its role in cyclical forms; usage tip: link end-words stepwise in stanzas to create momentum, ideal for themes of growth and reinforcing prosodic architecture.
Also Known As
chain rhyme sequential linking
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