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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Metrics

Prosody
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 systematic study and application of metrical patterns in poetry, analyzing stress, syllables, and feet for rhythmic composition.

Detailed Definition
Metrics encompasses the science of verse rhythm, from quantitative ancient systems to accentual modern ones, guiding poets in crafting harmonious structures. In Pope's Essay on Criticism, it upholds neoclassical balance; central to literature, it provides tools for thematic reinforcement—appearing universally, metrics ensures accessibility, allowing cultural transmission through predictable yet varied sounds, and evolves with language, highlighting prosody's adaptability to express evolving human experiences across genres and epochs.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare's iambic pentameter exemplifies metrics in sonnets, balancing stress for Elizabethan drama; Pope's heroic couplets use metrics for neoclassical satire in "Essay on Criticism"; Educational: Scan "Tyger Tyger burning bright" for Blake's accentual metrics; Milton's blank verse metrics sustain Paradise Lost's epic scope; For practice, analyze metrics in haiku syllable counts.|In Old English, metrics rely on alliteration in Beowulf; Learners chart metrics evolution from quantitative to accentual.
Additional Notes
Metrics systematizes rhythm study, foundational for scanning any verse from Beowulf to free forms, encompassing feet and stanza; Pope exemplifies neoclassical application; scholarly: evolution from quantitative to syllabic; tip: use metric feet charts in exercises to compose balanced lines, deepening appreciation of prosody's technical and artistic interplay.
Also Known As
metrical analysis versification study
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