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.

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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rural caesura

Sound
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 rural caesura is a mid-line pause used to evoke pastoral tranquility, stillness, or contemplation, often aligning with natural imagery or breath.

Detailed Definition
A rural caesura is a metrical pause or break within a poetic line that evokes pastoral or countryside imagery, often used in bucolic poetry to mimic the natural rhythms of rural life or speech; unlike standard caesuras that serve purely structural purposes, the rural caesura carries thematic weight, reinforcing the poem’s rustic setting through its placement and tone, as seen in Virgil’s Eclogues or English pastoral verse where the pause mirrors the breath of a shepherd or the stillness of a field.
Example
Example in poetry:
A metrical or syntactic pause (caesura) that occurs at a specific point in a line of verse to mimic the natural, often irregular pauses of everyday speech or common language.; A pause in the middle of a line that is placed after a word of simple, daily vocabulary (like 'plow,' 'home,' or 'field'), reflecting a common, rustic subject.; A line break or pause used in a pastoral or simple verse to give the line an easy, conversational, unforced rhythm.; The use of a comma or other punctuation mark mid-line in a poem about nature, placed to emphasize a common, un-elevated image.
Additional Notes
Rural caesura is a term from classical metrics, a type of caesura (a pause or break within a line of verse) that occurs after the first foot in a dactylic hexameter, often used for its characteristic rhythmic effect.
Also Known As
Country pause rustic caesura pastoral break Bucolic dieresis
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