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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Metrical overflow

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 continuation of rhythmic momentum beyond the expected line boundary

Detailed Definition
Occurs when a syntactic unit or phrase continues beyond the regular confines of a metrical line, causing surplus syllables or beats that overflow into the next unit; metrical overflow can heighten emotional intensity, elongate pacing, or create anticipation, often used in narrative verse to propel thought and image beyond neat boundaries.
Example
Example in poetry:
Longfellow’s “Evangeline” uses metrical overflow: “This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks”; Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” overflows tetrameter with feminine endings; Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” uses metrical overflow for narrative flow; Derek Walcott’s “Omeros” overflows hexameter with Creole phrases; A.E. Stallings overflows lines in “Hapax Legomenon” for classical effect; Alice Oswald’s “Memorial” uses metrical overflow to accommodate Homeric cataloging.
Additional Notes
Metrical overflow occurs when a thought or phrase exceeds the line’s metrical boundary. Related to peripheral run-on and rhythmic disruption. Creates momentum or tension—note how overflow mirrors thematic urgency or emotional spill.
Also Known As
Overflow meter Run-on rhythm Overstretched meter Rhythmic spill hypermetric ending Hypermetric expansion
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