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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Measure

Musical Terms
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 measure is a unit of musical time containing a specific number of beats, delineated by bar lines.

Detailed Definition
Poets use measure to denote rhythmic units or metrical groupings in lines, akin to bars in a score. It helps analyze or craft consistent pulse within stanzas. In formal verse, measures correspond to feet or syllables per line. This term grounds poetry in quantifiable rhythm, facilitating discussion of meter and variation. Its significance is in providing structural precision, allowing poets to “count” time like composers. Measure reinforces poetry’s temporal discipline, enabling controlled expressiveness and highlighting how small units build larger musical architectures in verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Measure organizes rhythm into metrical units like bars: each line holds a fixed measure of stresses for consistent pulse.; In formal verse, poets count measures to maintain form, varying slightly for interest.; Educational: students scan lines by measure to analyze or build meter.; Measure provides structural precision in sonnets or ballads.; It grounds free verse experiments against a felt beat.; Poets play with measure for syncopation or expansion within bounds.
Additional Notes
Measure divides time into rhythmic units like bars with fixed beats, aiding metrical consistency and variation control in formal verse. Tip: count stresses per line as measures to maintain pulse while allowing subtle syncopation. Related to meter and foot. Students scan poems by measure for prosody practice. It provides structural precision, enabling poets to build larger architectures from small temporal blocks with disciplined yet expressive freedom.
Also Known As
Bar Gauge nipperkin
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