A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 31 December 2026

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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

Until midnight on 31 December 2026, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. 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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Time-displaced 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

Rhyme linking words or phrases separated by a historical or temporal gap.

Detailed Definition
Time-displaced rhyme occurs when rhyming words appear in different temporal contexts—such as past and future stanzas—creating delayed sonic resolution that mirrors thematic echoes across time; this technique links disparate moments through sound, suggesting hidden continuities or cyclical patterns in human experience, as in long sequences where rhyme bridges memory and anticipation.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Knight” rhymes with “tonight” though separated by centuries of linguistic change; “Love” (Middle English /luːv/) rhyming with “prove” (Modern English /pruːv/) in Renaissance poetry; In Chaucer, “eye” and “companye” rhyme despite modern pronunciation shift; “Food” and “good” once rhymed in Old English but now displaced by vowel shift
Additional Notes
Time-displaced rhyme|A subtle or delayed rhyme where the corresponding sound occurs much later than the expected end-of-line position, sometimes across several lines or stanzas, challenging the reader's expectation and adding a hidden sonic layer.
Also Known As
Displaced rhyme Chronological shift rhyme Out-of-time rhyme Anachronistic rhyme
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