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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

Ring true

Idiomatic Phrase
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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

To seem authentic, credible, or believable; evaluates whether statements, stories, or claims possess ring of truth, resonating with listener's sense of honesty and accuracy.

Detailed Definition
Ring true means to sound authentic, convincing, sincere, or emotionally accurate. In poetry, the idiom is especially important because poems depend on tone, music, and credibility. A line may ring true even when it is fictional, if it captures human experience honestly. The bell-like image suggests clarity of sound and moral resonance. A poet may use the phrase to distinguish genuine feeling from cliché, rhetoric, or pretence. It is useful for discussing voice, truthfulness, and poetic authority.
Example
Example in poetry:
A love poem might say the simple promise rings true because no ornament is needed; In satire, a grand speech fails to ring true beside a hungry child; The phrase means to sound honest or convincing; A poet can use it to test sincerity.
Additional Notes
Ring true means seem genuine, convincing, or emotionally authentic. The phrase may evoke the clear sound of a bell or coin tested for purity. In poetry, it is useful for judging voice, confession, dialogue, and moral sincerity. Students should notice the sonic basis: truth is heard as resonance, not merely proved by argument. A poem can ring true even when fictional if its emotional and imaginative integrity feels exact.
Also Known As
seem genuine
Skip to main content