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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rhythmic chant

Form
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 repetitive, incantatory poetic form resembling ritual chant, emphasizing rhythm, refrain, and oral performance over narrative development.

Detailed Definition
Rhythmic chant is a poetic form or passage characterized by strong, repetitive beats, incantatory phrasing, and often minimal syntactic variation, evoking ritual, oral tradition, or trance-like states; commonly found in liturgical, shamanic, or protest poetry, it prioritizes sonic and communal over narrative or discursive functions.
Example
Example in poetry:
A short, highly repetitive and rhythmic verse used in ritual or communal speaking (e.g., children's jump-rope rhymes or nursery rhymes: "Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posie"); The use of a line with a strong, repetitive meter and a driving, regular cadence to be spoken in unison: "Boom-ta-BUM, Boom-ta-BUM, hear the drums a-callin'."; A poem that employs heavy alliteration and a regular, simple meter to create a pronounced, easy-to-follow beat for group recitation.; A line of verse with a simple, trochaic rhythm used in folk incantations or songs: "Hickory, dickory, dock."
Additional Notes
Rhythmic chant is a type of poetry or oral performance characterized by strong, pronounced, and often repetitive rhythms, designed to be recited, sung, or chanted; associated with ritual, folk poetry, and early oral traditions.
Also Known As
Chanted rhythm incantatory chant metric chant Chant poem lyric chant
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