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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

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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spelling 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 apparent rhyme derived from identical or similar spelling instead of phonetics

Detailed Definition
Spelling rhyme is synonymous with sight rhyme or eye rhyme—where words share identical or near-identical orthography but diverge in pronunciation (e.g., “cough”/“bough” or “love”/“move”)—and functions poetically to highlight the disjunction between written and spoken language, often evoking historical linguistic shifts or creating ironic tension; poets may use spelling rhyme deliberately to question the reliability of appearances, to signal cultural dislocation, or to generate a visual harmony that contrasts with auditory dissonance, thereby foregrounding the materiality of the text and the instability of signification in poetic form.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Love” and “dove” form spelling rhyme despite pronunciation shift; “Through” and “rough” are eye rhymes as spelling rhyme; In older English, “bough” and “cough” were spelling rhymes; Contemporary poet uses “colonize” and “apologize” as near spelling rhyme; Student example: “Enough” and “tough” as spelling rhyme in protest poem.
Additional Notes
Spelling rhyme (eye rhyme) pairs words that look alike but don’t sound alike (e.g., “cough”/“bough”). Contrast with true rhyme. Historically common; check period pronunciation—sometimes reflects older sound patterns.
Also Known As
Eye rhyme Sight rhyme Visual rhyme Letter-match rhyme Ocular rhyme orthographic rhyme
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