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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partial rhyme

Rhyme
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

An imperfect or incomplete rhyme matching some but not all sounds

Detailed Definition
Partial rhyme, also called slant rhyme, near rhyme, or half rhyme, is an imperfect correspondence between sounds that share some but not all phonetic elements. This might involve matching consonants with different vowels, similar but not identical sounds, or other approximate acoustic correspondences. Partial rhyme allows poets greater flexibility in word choice while maintaining sonic connection between lines. It can create more subtle, sophisticated effects than perfect rhyme and is particularly valued in modern poetry for avoiding the potentially sing-song quality of regular full rhyme while still providing acoustic structure and satisfaction.
Example
Example in poetry:
Partial rhyme matches consonants or vowels incompletely; Wilfred Owen’s “escaped/scooped”; Emily Dickinson’s “room/storm”; modern example: Seamus Heaney’s “Follower” uses “plough/through”; partial rhyme (half rhyme, slant rhyme) creates subtle sonic links; it’s common in modern lyric for emotional unease; this technique avoids perfect closure.
Additional Notes
partial rhyme|A rhyme in which only part of the sound matches (also called slant rhyme); adds subtlety or imperfection.
Also Known As
half rhyme slant rhyme near rhyme Consonance Similar endings
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