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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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Andromache

Mythology
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

Wife of Hector in the Iliad, famed for her loyalty and grief; later enslaved by Neoptolemus, she embodies Trojan resilience and loss.

Detailed Definition
Andromache was the devoted wife of Hector, prince of Troy, and mother of Astyanax. After Troy’s fall, she became a slave to Neoptolemus and later married Helenus. Her grief and resilience epitomize the suffering of women in war. Poets invoke her to convey themes of loss, loyalty, and the enduring pain of survivors in the wake of heroic tragedy.
Example
Example in poetry:
Andromache mourns Hector in Homer’s Iliad, her lament becoming a model for epic grief; Euripides’ play Andromache explores her life as a captive after Troy’s fall; In Virgil’s Aeneid, Andromache appears in exile, still faithful to Hector’s memory; Ovid includes Andromache’s sorrow in Heroides as an epistle of loss; Romantic poets like Byron reference Andromache as the archetype of widowhood; Modern verse uses Andromache to examine trauma and resilience in war’s aftermath.
Additional Notes
Andromache, wife of Hector and later concubine to Neoptolemus, epitomizes Trojan grief and maternal resilience; her laments in Euripides’ plays and Virgil’s Aeneid make her a powerful voice for wartime loss and displacement—ideal for elegiac or post-war poetry; her name (“man-fighter”) ironically contrasts her passive suffering.
Also Known As
Wife of Hector Mourner of Troy Andromakhe
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