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 interference

Meter
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

The disruption or alteration of a poem’s regular metrical pattern through irregular stresses, pauses, or substitutions that affect rhythm and flow

Detailed Definition
Measure interference occurs when two or more competing metrical patterns interact within a poem, creating rhythmic tension or ambiguity; this may arise from conflicting stress patterns, mixed meters, or syncopation, producing a dynamic prosody that mirrors psychological conflict, cultural hybridity, or linguistic instability in innovative or modernist verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” uses measure interference by mixing meters and languages; Emily Dickinson’s hymn meter is disrupted by slant rhyme and dashes; Contemporary poet M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!” interferes with legal text’s measure through erasure; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” interferes with nursery rhyme measure through Holocaust imagery; Walt Whitman’s cataloging interferes with traditional measure through organic cadence; Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” interferes with elegiac measure through theoretical fragments.
Additional Notes
Measure interference|meter|Conflict between expected meter and actual rhythm heightening alertness or tension. Related to substitution; tip: intentional for emphasis; scan to identify effects.
Also Known As
Metrical dissonance Rhythmic interference Prosodic clash Meter collision Hypermetric interruption
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