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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root 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

Rhyme based on shared etymological roots or morphological elements

Detailed Definition
Root rhyme is a type of assonance or consonance where words share a common etymological or morphological root (e.g., “sing,” “song,” “sung”), creating semantic as well as sonic linkage; this technique deepens thematic resonance by connecting related concepts through both sound and linguistic history.
Example
Example in poetry:
A type of rhyme where the root forms of the words are identical but their prefixes or suffixes differ, such as: play and replay.; Rhyming a word with its compound form: light and headlight.; Rhyming two words that are derived from the same base but have different grammatical functions: sing and singer.; The use of an identical rhyme where the root word is repeated, but one is inflected: loved and unloved.

In Old English poetry, “helm” and “welm” form rooted rhyme through shared Germanic roots; Langston Hughes’ use of “dream” and “stream” in “Harlem” shows rooted rhyme in African American vernacular; Seamus Heaney’s “North” uses rooted rhyme connecting Irish and Norse etymologies; Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” uses rooted rhyme in “jazz” and “days” through cultural resonance.
Additional Notes
Root rhyme is a form of rhyme where the rhyming words share the same basic root or etymology, even if their present-day spellings or sounds are slightly different; closely related to pararhyme and identical rhyme.

Rooted rhyme connects words through shared etymology or cultural history, not just sound—e.g., Old English “helm/welm”; deepens meaning by invoking linguistic ancestry; common in poetry exploring identity or heritage.
Also Known As
Rooted rhyme stem rhyme foundational rhyme Cognate rhyme Morphological rhyme Deep rhyme Etymological rhyme Root-linked assonance Linguistic correspondence Etymology-rooted
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