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.

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.

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.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard



Compare Poets

Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.

Poet A

Ezra Pound Ezra Pound

Poet B

William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats
Compare two related contemporaries

A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.

Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 71% Poems 87% Blended 78%
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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972 (~87)
3 live poems · English

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey, in the Idaho Territory of the United States, and died on 1 November 1972 in Venice, Italy. Few writers altered the course of twentieth-century poetry as decisively as he did, and few have left behind a legacy so divided between artistic admiration and moral revulsion. Pound was a poet, editor, translator, critic, impresario, polemicist, and tireless orga…

“It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 (~74)
22 live poems · English

William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 at Sandymount, County Dublin, and died on 28 January 1939 at Menton, France. During the seventy-three years between those dates, he became not merely Ireland’s most internationally celebrated modern poet but one of the major writers in English. Poet, dramatist, essayist, editor, cultural organizer, senator, and tireless architect of literary institutions, Yeats made a car…

“No mind is more valuable than the images it contains.”

Neighbourhood: Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Modernist Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Political Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair

In time

Ezra Pound
William Butler Yeats
1865 1972
They overlapped for 55 years (1885–1939). When Ezra Pound was born, William Butler Yeats was about 20. Ezra Pound was about 54 when William Butler Yeats died.

On the map

About 7,258 km separate Hailey, Idaho, USA from Dublin, Ireland. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

Themes they return to

Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.

Shared

From the biographies

history

Ezra Pound: hailey, venice, imagism, vorticism, t.s. eliot, james joyce, h.d., the cantos. William Butler Yeats: sandymount, county dublin, menton, maud gonne, the wanderings of oisin, the second coming, sailing to byzantium, abbey theatre.

Poems that secretly rhyme

The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.

A Dawn Song
Ezra Pound
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The Three Hermits
William Butler Yeats
A Dawn Song
Ezra Pound
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An Old Song Resung
William Butler Yeats
A Dawn Song
Ezra Pound
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A Memory of Youth
William Butler Yeats
A Dawn Song
Ezra Pound
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Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
William Butler Yeats
A Dawn Song
Ezra Pound
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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
William Butler Yeats
A Dawn Song
Ezra Pound
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The Song of Wandering Aengus
William Butler Yeats

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

Ezra Pound: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing. William Butler Yeats: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.

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