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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Outside measure

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

Extra-metrical syllables or phrases excluded from the formal beat count, often used for emphasis or rhythmic variation.

Detailed Definition
Outside measure refers to metrical or rhythmic elements in a poem that exist beyond the conventional boundaries of the poetic line or stanza, often manifesting in the white space, punctuation, or implied pauses that shape the reader’s temporal and auditory experience; this concept challenges the notion that meter resides solely within syllabic or stress patterns, emphasizing instead how external structural choices—such as enjambment, caesura, or even typography—contribute to the poem’s sonic and emotional pacing, as seen in the experimental spacing of E.E. Cummings or the breath-based lineation of Charles Olson’s projective verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Outside measure: a line exceeding expected meter—12 syllables in a tetrameter poem; In free verse, an unusually long line disrupts rhythm for emphasis; A poem where one line sprawls: “And then the sky cracked open like a rotten fruit spilling stars everywhere” amid short lines; Outside measure creates surprise, overflow, or chaos; It’s a controlled rupture.
Additional Notes
Outside measure describes lines that exceed or defy expected metrical norms. Related to metrical overflow and surplus pentameter. May signal emotional intensity—determine if irregularity is expressive or merely uncontrolled.
Also Known As
Outside meter Non-metrical addition Overmeasure Extra rhythm unit Beyond meter Extrametrical
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