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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Untruncated short iambic

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 regular two-foot iambic line without omitted syllables or feet

Detailed Definition
Untruncated short iambic is a brief iambic line (e.g., dimeter or trimeter) that contains all expected syllables for its designated foot count, without catalexis or elision; though short, it is metrically whole, offering rhythmic clarity and expressive focus, often used in refrains, epigrams, or strophic variation for contrast and emphasis.
Example
Example in poetry:
“To be, / or not / to be: / that is / the ques-/tion” (Shakespeare, Hamlet)—the final “ques-/tion” is an untruncated short iambic, completing the line with a full unstressed-stressed pair; “And miles / to go / before / I sleep” (Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”)—each foot, including the last “I sleep,” is a complete iamb with no truncation; “Shall I / compare / thee to / a sum-/mer’s day?” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)—the penultimate foot “sum-/mer’s” and final “day?” form untruncated iambs despite elision; “The cur-/few tolls / the knell / of part-/ing day” (Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”)—every foot, including “part-/ing,” is a full iamb without truncation; “I wan-/dered lone-/ly as / a cloud” (William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”)—though beginning with a trochee, the subsequent feet like “as a” and “cloud” (if read with secondary stress on “cloud”) demonstrate untruncated iambic resolution in lyrical context; “Let us / go then, / you and / I” (T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)—each foot, including the closing “and I,” maintains a complete iambic beat without truncation.
Additional Notes
Untruncated short iambic keeps expected iambic rhythm despite brevity (e.g., dimeter). Related to whole rising dimeter. Avoids feeling clipped—achieved through strong stresses or contextual support from surrounding lines.
Also Known As
Untruncated dimeter Full short iambic Complete two-foot rising line Perfect minimal iamb Iambic dimeter acatalectic
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