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.

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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mixed anapestic hexameter

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 hexameter line primarily anapestic but containing substitutions from other feet.

Detailed Definition
Mixed anapestic hexameter combines anapestic feet (two unstressed followed by one stressed syllable) with other metrical patterns within a six-foot line, creating rhythmic variation that avoids monotony while retaining the galloping momentum characteristic of pure anapestic verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A line of verse consisting of six feet where the prevailing foot is the anapest (da-da-DUM), but other feet (like iambs) are also present; 'The wind and the rain in the night and the storm and the chill of the air' (A long line with a mix of da-da-DUM and da-DUM feet); A line that alternates between pure anapestic and pure dactylic feet for effect, but overall maintains six feet; A poem that uses this long, rolling meter, but with occasional trochaic substitutions for emphasis.
Additional Notes
mixed anapestic hexameter: A line of six metrical feet (hexameter) that primarily uses the anapest (unstressed-unstressed-stressed), but incorporates other feet (like iambs or spondees) for variety and rhythm.
Also Known As
Hybrid hexameter mixed-foot hexameter anapestic blend hexameter Anapestic Hexameter Hybrid
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