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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albeit

Archaic Terms
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

Although; even though; despite the fact that—used to introduce a concessive clause, often in elevated or poetic diction.

Detailed Definition
Though still occasionally used, “albeit” is archaic in tone and common in poetic and formal prose from the 14th century onward. It introduces concessive clauses with elegance and concision, allowing complex thought within tight metrical structures. In poetry, it enables nuanced expression—acknowledging contradiction while affirming a central idea. Its persistence in literary language reflects its utility in balancing opposing ideas with rhythmic grace.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Albeit he smiled, his eyes held sorrow," a line demonstrating concessive contrast; Shakespeare uses it in Sonnet 35: "Albeit I judge thee not, yet I condemn thee"; In Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: "Albeit rough, his heart was kind"; "Albeit small, the seed held mighty promise," a metaphysical conceit; Milton writes in Paradise Lost: "Albeit unseen, the angel stood near"; Albeit the path was dark, she walked with faith.
Additional Notes
Though “albeit” survives in formal modern English, its archaic density makes it a favorite in poetic diction for compact concessive clauses; it often introduces nuanced contrasts in sonnets or meditative poems, functioning as a single-word substitute for “although it be that.”
Also Known As
although though even though
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