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.

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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Tetrasyllable

Foot
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 metrical unit or line of four syllables, often composed of two disyllabic feet

Detailed Definition
Tetrasyllable describes a four-syllable segment, common in hymns, nursery rhymes, and refrains, typically built from iambs, trochees, or anapests; its brevity lends itself to mnemonic or musical functions, and while not a single foot, it appears in glossaries because such units often serve as modular building blocks in longer metrical schemes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tetrasyllable refers to a four-syllable word or foot, such as “alphabet” in modern verse; In Latin hexameter, “magnanimus” fills a tetrasyllabic slot; Nursery rhymes use tetrasyllabic lines: “Jack and Jill went up the hill”; Poets like Donne use tetrasyllables for rhythmic density: “For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love”; Tetrasyllabic adjectives (“unforgettable”) challenge iambic norms; They often span a full metrical foot in quantitative verse.
Additional Notes
Tetrasyllable: A word or metrical unit of four syllables; in classical prosody, tetrasyllabic feet include choriamb, iambic dimeter segments, and paeons; important for scanning Aeolic and lyric meters where four-syllable patterns dominate.
Also Known As
Four-syllable line
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