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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


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

John Fletcher John Fletcher

Poet B

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

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Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
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John Fletcher

John Fletcher

20 December 1579 – 29 August 1625 (~46)
2 live poems · English

John Fletcher, baptized on 20 December 1579 and buried on 29 August 1625, was one of the most successful, inventive, and influential dramatists of England’s Jacobean age. Though he is now less familiar to general readers than William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, or Christopher Marlowe, Fletcher was for generations among the most frequently performed writers in the English language. In the decades after his death, audienc…

“Understand a pastoral to be a representation of shepherds and shepherdesses with their actions and passions, which must be such as may agree with their natures.”

Neighbourhood: Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Peace, Despair
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Sir John Beaumont

Sir John Beaumont

c. 1583 – 19 April 1627 (~44)
1 live poem · English

Sir John Beaumont, first baronet of Grace Dieu, was born about 1583 and died on 19 April 1627. He belongs to that large and fascinating company of English writers whose work has survived more quietly than their fame deserved. In his own lifetime and for generations afterward, he was known not merely as a poet but as a gentleman of substantial standing: a landowner in Leicestershire, a member of a distinguished legal…

Neighbourhood: Death & Mortality, Devotional Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

John Fletcher
Sir John Beaumont
1579 1627
They overlapped for 43 years (1583–1625). When Sir John Beaumont was born, John Fletcher was about 4. Sir John Beaumont was about 42 when John Fletcher died.
John Fletcher in history Sir John Beaumont in history Years they were given

On the map

About 242 km separate Wittersham, Kent, England from Grace Dieu, Leicestershire, England. Both have ground in London.

John Fletcher

Sir John Beaumont

Open both on the History Atlas

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

life grief loss

John Fletcher only

sorrow melancholy jacobean passionate inner passion contemplative mourner pain

Sir John Beaumont only

beaumont father elegy faith

From the biographies

francis beaumont

John Fletcher: rye, sussex, francis beaumont, the faithful shepherdess, philaster, the maid's tragedy, a king and no king, tragicomedy. Sir John Beaumont: grace dieu, leicestershire, roman catholic recusant, charles i, francis beaumont, the metamorphosis of tobacco, bosworth field, michael drayton.

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.

Weep no more
John Fletcher
76% grief, loss
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Of My Deare Sonne, Geruase Beaumont
Sir John Beaumont
Melancholy
John Fletcher
74% life
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Of My Deare Sonne, Geruase Beaumont
Sir John Beaumont

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1592 Imprisonment for Religious Activities
1595 Execution at Tyburn
1600 English East India Company Chartered
1600 William Gilbert publishes De Magnete and coins electricus
1603 Imprisonment in the Tower of London
1605 Cervantes Publishes Don Quixote Featuring the Windmill Combat Scene
1605 Publication of 'Don Quixote' Part I
1615 Cervantes publishes the second part of Don Quixote

John Fletcher

1591 Education at Corpus Christi College
1596 Death of Father Richard Fletcher
1600 Move to London
1606 Collaboration with Francis Beaumont
1608 Publication of 'The Faithful Shepherdess'
1610 Appointment as House Playwright
1613 Publication of 'The Chances'
1620 Collaboration with Philip Massinger

Sir John Beaumont

1597 Education at Broadgates Hall
1598 Death of Father
1602 Publication of 'The Metamorphosis of Tobacco'
1605 Head of the Family
1606 Friendship with Francis Beaumont
1610 Publication of 'The Bosom Friend'
1616 Death of Francis Beaumont
1620 Publication of 'The Divine Poems'

Emotional landscapes

John Fletcher: Sorrow, Peace, Despair. Sir John Beaumont: Sorrow, Tenderness, Despair.

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