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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sentence-ending cadence

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 sentence-ending cadence aligns poetic line closure with grammatical completion, creating rhythmic finality and clarity through syntactic resolution.

Detailed Definition
Sentence-ending cadence describes the rhythmic and phonetic contour that concludes a syntactic unit in poetry, often marked by falling intonation, punctuation, or metrical resolution; this cadence provides closure and shapes the reader’s breath and pacing, distinguishing complete thoughts from enjambed continuations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s “To be, or not to be” ends with falling cadence: “that is the question”; In Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” uses sentence-ending cadence for closure; Emily Dickinson’s dashes often create cadenced pauses at sentence ends; Robert Frost’s “And miles to go before I sleep” uses iambic cadence to close the sentence and poem
Additional Notes
sentence-ending cadence: The rhythm and sound pattern that occurs at the conclusion of a grammatically complete sentence, often coinciding with an end-stopped line or a strong pause; contributes to the poem's overall musicality.
Also Known As
Terminal cadence end-sentence rhythm final closure Clausular rhythm
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