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

Home › Glossary › Letter M

metrical verse

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

Poetry composed in regular metrical patterns, as opposed to free verse

Detailed Definition
Metrical verse adheres to a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (e.g., iambic pentameter), creating rhythmic structure through consistent feet and line lengths; this formal discipline provides musicality, emphasis, and pacing, allowing poets to shape emotional tone and meaning through the interplay of predictable meter and strategic variation or substitution.
Example
Example in poetry:
metrical verse: "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate" (iambic pentameter); "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night" (trochaic tetrameter); "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting" (trochaic octameter); "This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks" (dactylic hexameter); "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (iambic tetrameter); Regular rhythmic pattern distinguishes it from free verse.
Additional Notes
metrical verse denotes poetry structured by consistent metrical patterns (e.g., iambic pentameter), distinguishing it from free or syllabic verse; students should learn to identify common meters and their effects—e.g., dactylic hexameter for epic grandeur, anapestic tetrameter for galloping energy—and how variations create emphasis or disruption.
Also Known As
quantitative verse rhythmic poetry measured line formal metered poetry Measured poetry measured verse
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