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

Home › Glossary › Letter T

Trimeter line

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 metrical line consisting of three feet (e.g., iambic trimeter), frequently used in lyric poetry for brisk, rhythmic concision.

Detailed Definition
Trimeter line is a metrical line consisting of three feet, commonly used in English poetry for its brisk, lyrical, or ballad-like rhythm. Depending on the foot type, trimeter can be iambic (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM), trochaic (DUM-da DUM-da DUM-da), anapestic, or dactylic, each imparting distinct emotional and narrative effects. Iambic trimeter appears in hymns and light verse; trochaic trimeter in Blake’s "The Tyger"; anapestic in limericks. Its brevity lends itself to epigrammatic statements, song refrains, or rapid narrative pacing. For students, mastering trimeter reveals how line length shapes poetic tempo and tone, offering a versatile tool for balancing concision with musicality in both traditional and experimental contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
Trimeter line in Emily Dickinson: “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”; In Robert Frost: “Stopping by Woods” alternates tetrameter/trimeter; Trimeter line in nursery rhymes: “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall”; Contemporary: “Three beats. Heart. Stone. Gone.” – minimalist trimeter
Additional Notes
Verse line containing three metrical feet. Common in hymns, ballads, nursery rhymes. Often paired with tetrameter. Study examples in iambic and trochaic meters for versatility.
Also Known As
Three-foot line Three-measure verse Triple-beat line Trimeter measure Triameter
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