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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Line-end 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 at the end of poetic lines, forming the most common and recognizable type of rhyming pattern.

Detailed Definition
Rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines, creating sound correspondence between line endings. This is the most common and standard rhyme position in English poetry. Line-end rhyme establishes rhyme schemes, creates aural patterns, links lines structurally, provides closure, and shapes stanzaic forms. Contrasts with internal rhyme within lines and initial rhyme at line beginnings. Fundamental to ballads, sonnets, and most traditional forms.
Example
Example in poetry:
Line-end rhyme appears in Shakespeare’s sonnets: “day / May”; In Keats’ odes: “ear / near”; In Emily Dickinson: “hope / rope”; In W.B. Yeats: “artifice / gyre”; In Gwendolyn Brooks: “school / cool”; In contemporary poet Terrance Hayes: strategic end-rhyme in free verse.
Additional Notes
Standard term for most common rhyme position. Fundamental to rhyme scheme notation and formal analysis. Contrasts with internal and initial rhyme.
Also Known As
Terminal rhyme Verse-end rhyme Closing correspondence End-positioned rhyme End rhyme ending rhyme
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