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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 N

Nasal

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

A consonant sound produced through the nose, adding resonant timbre to prosodic lines for moody or melancholic effects.

Detailed Definition
Nasals like "m," "n," or "ng" infuse poetry with humming undertones, extending vowel resonance to deepen emotional layers in rhythm. In Poe's "The Raven," they enhance the dirge-like quality; their literary use creates atmospheric density, appearing in gothic verse to evoke introspection—by altering sonic texture, nasals mimic lament or mystery, enriching prosody's expressive range and inviting sensory immersion, thus bridging phonetic detail with psychological depth in poetic narration.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Poe's "Annabel Lee," nasals like "nevermore" resonate for mournful echo; Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" uses nasal "numbness" for drowsy timbre; Example: "Moonlit mist" with nasals for hazy rhythm; In blues poetry, nasals hum like harmonica in Langston Hughes; Students: Add nasals to gothic lines for atmosphere.|In Rilke's Duino Elegies (translated), nasals deepen elegiac tone; Practice nasal clusters in lament verses.
Additional Notes
Nasals add resonance for mood, teaching students sonic texture in gothic or blues poetry, related to approximants; Poe's repetitions create echo; advanced: phonetics in sound symbolism; usage tip: cluster nasals in laments for humming timbre, enhancing atmospheric prosody and emotional immersion.
Also Known As
nasal consonant resonant nasal
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