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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Stylometrics

Prosody
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

The statistical analysis of a text's stylistic features to identify patterns, authorship, or characteristics

Detailed Definition
Stylometrics employs computational and statistical methods to examine word length, vocabulary frequency, syllable patterns, and other measurable features of a poet's distinctive voice. In contemporary prosodic study, stylometrics enables objective analysis of poetic technique, authorship attribution, and evolution of individual poets' styles; this computational approach complements traditional close reading, revealing large-scale patterns and quantifiable aspects of prosodic choice.
Example
Example in poetry:
Stylometrics identifies Shakespeare’s authorship via function-word frequency in disputed plays; In analyzing Dickinson’s manuscripts, stylometrics distinguishes her hand from editors’; Stylometrics confirms Marlowe’s influence in early Shakespeare through shared rare words; In modern poetry, stylometrics detects AI-generated verses by measuring syntactic variance; Stylometrics attributes anonymous Restoration poems by comparing rhyme density; In forensic poetics, stylometrics helped attribute “A Funeral Elegy” to Shakespeare via rare-word clustering.
Additional Notes
Stylometrics is the quantitative analysis of literary style using statistical methods, often applied to questions of authorship, genre, or historical period. In prosody, stylometrics can measure metrical preferences (e.g., frequency of enjambment, caesura placement, or foot types) to identify a poet’s signature or detect anomalies. While traditional prosody is qualitative, stylometrics offers empirical support for interpretive claims. It bridges literary studies and computational linguistics, increasingly used in digital humanities.
Also Known As
computational stylistics quantitative stylistics
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