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 U

Uniform two-line

Form
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 matched pair of lines maintaining equal rhythm or length for balance

Detailed Definition
Uniform two-line denotes a poem composed entirely of couplets that maintain consistent meter, rhyme, and syntactic structure throughout, creating a sense of orderly progression and rhetorical balance; whether heroic (iambic pentameter) or tetrameter, this form—used by Pope or in traditional quatrains split into pairs—relies on predictability to underscore clarity, wit, or moral certainty.
Example
Example in poetry:
Pope’s heroic couplets: "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance"; Blake’s "The Tyger" uses uniform two-line units in quatrains; Dickinson’s common meter alternates but often pairs lines; Traditional proverbs use uniform two-line wisdom; Japanese tanka often split into 5-7-5/7-7, forming uniform two-line units in translation.
Additional Notes
A uniform two-line unit maintains consistent meter, rhyme, and structure across couplets—creating predictability and balance (e.g., Pope). It’s orderly and controlled. Students should consider effect: does uniformity comfort or constrain? Related to “regular couplet” but emphasizes consistency.
Also Known As
Consistent couplet Uniform dyad Steady two-line Balanced distich pure-meter couplet unvaried couplet
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