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.

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

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Alighieri

Historical Figure
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

Dante Alighieri, the iconic Italian poet of "The Divine Comedy"; his influence permeates western poetry through allegory, terza rima, and the exploration of sin, redemption, and spiritual pilgrimage in verse.

Detailed Definition
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) shaped Italian literature and Christian allegory with his masterpiece “The Divine Comedy,” charting a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. Poets invoke Dante as the archetype of visionary imagination, moral insight, and poetic mastery linking earthly love and divine truth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Alighieri: Dante’s “Inferno” offers poets a scaffold for moral geography: “I walked where sins are carved in stone, and every cry a name unknown.”; His terza rima inspires poets to chain lines with interlocking rhymes, as in “The wind howls low through hollow bone, / A soul once bright, now turned to stone, / Its whisper lost, its light outgrown.”; Poets invoke his journey through realms to frame personal crises: “I descended not through fire, but grief—each circle shaped by what I’d kept.”; His use of historical figures in hell, like Francesca and Brunetto, teaches poets to haunt verse with real ghosts.; A modern poet might write, “Like Dante, I met my guide in ash—/ a teacher who had lost his way, / yet led me through the dark to flash / of truth no earthly light could stay.”; Alighieri’s blend of theology and earthly detail shows poets how to make the metaphysical tactile.
Additional Notes
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is not merely a theological epic but a linguistic and structural masterpiece that codified the Italian vernacular; his use of terza rima, layered allegory, and historical figures as moral exemplars or cautionary tales made him a model for poets seeking to fuse personal pilgrimage with cosmic order, influencing generations from Milton to T.S. Eliot.
Also Known As
Dante
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