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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secondary 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 additional rhyme supporting or extending a primary rhyme pattern

Detailed Definition
Secondary rhyme refers to a subtle or subordinate rhyming pattern that operates beneath or alongside a poem’s primary rhyme scheme, often involving slant rhymes, internal echoes, or assonance; it enriches sonic texture without dominating the verse, adding complexity and musicality, especially in free verse or modernist poetry where overt rhyme is minimized.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” secondary rhyme appears in internal echoes like “fair” and “hair” alongside end rhymes; Emily Dickinson uses secondary rhyme in slant-rhymed couplets: “Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –”; In “The Raven,” Poe layers secondary rhymes (“dreary,” “weary”) within primary ABABCBBB scheme; W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” uses secondary rhyme in “bee-loud glade” echoing “made”
Additional Notes
secondary rhyme: Rhyme that occurs in a non-primary position, such as within a line (internal rhyme) or less frequently at the end, but in a way that is less stressed or prominent than the main end rhymes; enhances musicality without dominating the stanza structure.
Also Known As
supporting rhyme inner rhyme Auxiliary rhyme
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