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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Syllabification

Education
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 division of words into syllables according to pronunciation. It helps readers pronounce words, hear rhythm, and recognize how a poet arranges sound in a line.

Detailed Definition
Syllabification is the practice of separating a word into its spoken sound units, such as recognizing that “poetry” commonly has three syllables. In poetry study, it helps students pronounce unfamiliar vocabulary and determine the rhythmic shape of a line. Because verse may depend on regular meter, a reader needs to know where syllables occur and which receive stress. Poets can also exploit alternate pronunciations, contractions, or elisions to adjust a line’s movement. Teaching syllabification therefore connects phonics, oral reading, and formal analysis.
Example
Example in poetry:
Students practice syllabification by dividing “poetry” into po-et-ry and hearing its three syllables; A teacher uses syllabification to help writers decide whether “beautiful” will fit a line’s meter; Learners clap syllables in words such as “river,” “yellow,” and “imagination” before drafting a poem; Syllabification helps students recognize why a word’s spoken syllables may differ from how many letters it contains
Additional Notes
Syllabification should follow spoken pronunciation, which may differ by dialect or poetic context. Clap, tap, or stretch words aloud to hear their parts, then test them in the line. Poets sometimes use elision, contraction, or pronunciation variants to fit meter, so consult both sound and sense when counting.
Also Known As
Syllable Division Syllabic Analysis Word Breaking Syllable Segmentation
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