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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structural 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

A rhyme scheme determined by the poem’s formal or conceptual architecture rather than arbitrary sound choice, serving structural unity or thematic development.

Detailed Definition
Structural rhyme denotes rhyme that serves a formal or organizational purpose beyond mere sonic ornament—such as linking stanzas in a sestina, anchoring a refrain, or demarcating sections in a rondeau; these rhymes create architectural cohesion, guiding the reader through the poem’s design and reinforcing thematic echoes, making them integral to the poem’s logic rather than incidental to its sound.
Example
Example in poetry:
Structural rhyme supports the poem’s architecture through patterned sound: The ABAB rhyme in a Shakespearean sonnet is structural; The ABA BCB CDC rhyme of terza rima creates forward momentum; Refrain rhymes in a villanelle (“Do not go gentle…”) are structural; Even slant rhymes in Dickinson (“Room”/“Storm”) serve structural cohesion.
Additional Notes
structural rhyme|A pattern of rhymes that defines the stanzaic form or overall architecture of a poem, like the abab cdcd efef gg of an English sonnet; essential for identifying fixed forms.
Also Known As
Rhyme scheme Formal rhyme Patterned rhyme Architectonic rhyme blueprint rhyme token rhyme
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