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

missing final syllable

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

A metrical omission in which the final expected syllable of a line is dropped, often creating a truncated or abrupt effect.

Detailed Definition
A missing final syllable describes a metrical truncation in which the expected concluding syllable of a line is omitted, often creating a feminine-to-masculine rhyme shift or a jarring pause; this technique can convey abruptness, urgency, or incompleteness in lyrical expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
A line of iambic pentameter that ends on a stressed syllable but is missing the final expected unstressed syllable, resulting in a truncated or catalectic line; A line intended to be dactylic, where the final foot is a trochee (DUM-da) instead of the full dactyl (DUM-da-da); A trochaic line that ends on a single stressed syllable rather than the full trochee; A line whose syntax suggests a word has been omitted purely for the sake of meter or rhythm.
Additional Notes
missing final syllable: A line that ends with a stressed syllable when the expected metrical pattern requires an unstressed one, often resulting in a truncated line or a catalectic meter.
Also Known As
Catalectic line missing syllable dropped final syllable Catalectic
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