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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Metric Patterning

Education
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 arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into recurring rhythmic designs. It provides a poem with an organized sense of beat and movement.

Detailed Definition
Metric patterning describes the regular or deliberately varied rhythms created by sequences of stressed and unstressed syllables. Common English patterns include iambs, trochees, anapests, and dactyls, which may be organized into lines of differing lengths. Poets can follow a pattern closely, alter it for emphasis, or abandon it in favor of freer rhythms. Studying metric patterning helps readers hear structure beneath a poem’s language and understand how pace, expectation, tension, and emotional force can arise from rhythmic repetition and variation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Students identify metric patterning in a line of iambic pentameter by marking unstressed and stressed syllables; A class compares the steady metric patterning of a traditional ballad with the freer rhythms of a contemporary poem; In “To Autumn,” students listen for how regular metric patterning supports the poem’s calm movement; A writing exercise asks students to create four lines with the same metric patterning before deliberately varying the fifth line
Additional Notes
Metric patterning may use regular feet, such as iambs or trochees, or establish a looser recurring pulse. Scan lines aloud before marking stresses, since natural speech is the best guide. Variations from an expected pattern can create emphasis, tension, surprise, or a feeling of disruption.
Also Known As
Metrical Structure Rhythmic Patterning Prosodic Design Meter Scheme
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