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

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American Fireside Poets

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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

A group of 19th-century American poets famous for moral, accessible, and family-friendly works

Detailed Definition
A collective of 19th-century American poets, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and James Russell Lowell. Known for accessible, moral, and family-oriented verse, they often used traditional forms and themes, becoming staples in school curricula and reflecting American cultural values of the period.
Example
Example in poetry:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” exemplifies the Fireside Poets’ accessible narrative and national subject matter; John Greenleaf Whittier’s “Snow-Bound” turns a New England snowstorm into domestic memory and moral reflection; Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “The Chambered Nautilus” uses a natural object to develop an uplifting spiritual lesson; James Russell Lowell’s “The Present Crisis” shows the group’s engagement with public ethics and reform; often called the Schoolroom or Household Poets, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and William Cullen Bryant were widely read aloud in nineteenth-century American homes and schools
Additional Notes
A 19th-century group promoting accessible moral verse; useful to study for traditional meter, rhyme, and themes; linked to American literary nationalism.
Also Known As
Fireside Poets Household Poets Schoolroom Poets New England Poets Fireside or Schoolroom Poets (US)
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