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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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Stress-based hexameter

Meter
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 accentual verse line containing six stressed syllables, regardless of unstressed count, used in folk and oral traditions to maintain strong rhythmic drive.

Detailed Definition
Stress-based hexameter is a metrical line consisting of six primary stresses, regardless of syllable count, aligning with Germanic or Old English strong-stress traditions rather than classical quantitative meter; this form emphasizes rhythmic intensity over syllabic regularity, allowing variable unstressed syllables between beats, and appears in modern adaptations by poets like Ezra Pound who sought to revive native English prosody through accentual frameworks.
Example
Example in poetry:
Stress-based hexameter uses six strong stresses per line, regardless of syllables: “The wind howls through the broken streets of time and ash and bone” (6 stresses: wind, howls, bro-ken, streets, time, ash); “God walks in the ruins where the children used to play” (stresses on God, walks, ru-ins, chil-dren, used, play); “Fire eats the night and leaves no shadow for the dawn” (6 stresses); Anglo-Saxon-inspired modern verse often uses this form for epic tone.
Additional Notes
A Stress-based hexameter is a six-foot line where the meter is based solely on the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (accentual verse), rather than the classical quantitative distinction of 'long' and 'short' syllables.
Also Known As
Accentual hexameter stress-hexameter strong-stress six-foot line
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