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.

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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Syllabic-Accentual Verse

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

A mixed system of prosody where both the number of syllables per line and the number of stresses per line are generally fixed

Detailed Definition
Syllabic-Accentual Verse is a metrical system that combines fixed syllable counts per line with variable stress patterns, offering a middle ground between strict accentual-syllabic meter (like iambic pentameter) and purely syllabic forms (as in haiku); this hybrid approach, used by poets like Marianne Moore, allows for rhythmic flexibility while maintaining structural discipline, enabling the poet to control line length precisely without being bound to a single stress pattern, thus accommodating conversational diction and complex thought within a formally coherent framework that balances musicality with semantic nuance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Syllabic-Accentual Verse|English meter counting syllables and stresses; Iambic pentameter combining both; Traditional metrical poetry; Patterned stress and syllable number
Additional Notes
Syllabic-Accentual Verse counts both the number of syllables and stresses per line, giving structure while retaining rhythmical variety.
Also Known As
Syllable-stress verse Mixed prosody Syllabic-accentual meter Combined measure
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