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

G. K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton

Poet B

W. H. Davies W. H. Davies
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 73% Poems 87% Blended 80%
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G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936 (~62)
13 live poems · English

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born on 29 May 1874 at Campden Hill in Kensington, London, into a comfortable middle-class household whose mixture of security, imagination, and mild religious seriousness helped to form one of the most exuberant literary personalities of the twentieth century. He died on 14 June 1936 at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, after a career that made him internationally recognizable as an essayis…

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

Neighbourhood: Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Hymn Writers, Light Verse Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Political Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing
W. H. Davies

W. H. Davies

3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940 (~69)
23 live poems · English

William Henry Davies, known throughout his writing life as W. H. Davies, was born on 3 July 1871 at 16 Portland Street in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and died on 26 September 1940 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. He remains one of the most unusual figures in twentieth-century British literature: a poet of birds, rain, flowers, beggars, exhausted workers, roadside freedom, and the precarious dignity of people whom r…

“All the wildness had been taken out of me, and my adventures after this were not of my own seeking.”

Neighbourhood: Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets, Welsh Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Longing

In time

G. K. Chesterton
W. H. Davies
1871 1940
They overlapped for 63 years (1874–1936). When G. K. Chesterton was born, W. H. Davies was about 3. W. H. Davies was about 65 when G. K. Chesterton died.

On the map

About 192 km separate Kensington, London, England from Newport, Wales. Shared ground: United Kingdom.

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

G. K. Chesterton: campden hill, beaconsfield, father brown, orthodoxy, the wild knight, frances blogg, edmund clerihew bentley, clerihew. W. H. Davies: newport, monmouthshire, the soul destroyer, leisure, george bernard shaw, edward thomas, super-tramp, the autobiography of a super-tramp.

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.

Love's Trappist
G. K. Chesterton
82% love
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Love's Inspiration
W. H. Davies
Love's Trappist
G. K. Chesterton
81% love
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Love's Caution
W. H. Davies
Love's Trappist
G. K. Chesterton
78%
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Joy Supreme
W. H. Davies
The Crusader Returns from Captivity
G. K. Chesterton
77%
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The Two Lives
W. H. Davies
Love's Trappist
G. K. Chesterton
77%
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The Two Lives
W. H. Davies
The Great Minimum
G. K. Chesterton
77%
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Life is Jolly
W. H. Davies

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

G. K. Chesterton: Spirituality, Wonder, Longing. W. H. Davies: Tenderness, Wonder, Longing.

Compare their emotional landscapes
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