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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Animated

Mood
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 mood brimming with vitality, vigor, and expressive intensity, often conveyed through dynamic verbs, vivid imagery, and energetic rhythm.

Detailed Definition
Animated mood in poetry conveys vivacity through quick rhythm, bright imagery, and dynamic diction; it appears in celebration verses, nature poems, or social scenes—like Whitman or Neruda—where the poet’s enthusiasm infuses language with movement and warmth, transforming observation into a living, breathing testament to joy in the present moment.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats’ speaker is animated by the bird’s song, leaping from earthbound sorrow to imaginative flight; Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” uses exuberant natural imagery (“Inebriate of air—am I”) to convey an animated joy; In “Song of Myself,” Whitman’s cascading lines and inclusive catalogues (“I celebrate myself, and sing myself”) radiate an animated vitality; The playful rhythm and vivid verbs in e.e. cummings’ “in Just-” (“the world is puddle-wonderful”) create an animated springtime mood; In “The Tyger,” Blake’s rhythmic hammering (“Tyger Tyger, burning bright”) animates awe and creative energy; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” begins with an animated call to belonging (“You do not have to be good”), urging the reader into motion and life.
Additional Notes
Animated mood suggests liveliness, spirited energy, and vivid engagement; poets use rhythmic vitality, exclamation, or dynamic verbs to evoke this feeling—common in celebratory or nature poems (e.g., Wordsworth’s daffodils); contrasts with listless or subdued tones; often overlaps with vivacious, exuberant, or buoyant moods.
Also Known As
Lively Spirited Energetic Vivid Enlivened Vivacious
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