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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.

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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Anna Perenna

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

Goddess of the cycle of the year, celebrated on the Ides of March with revelry and drinking.

Detailed Definition
Anna Perenna presided over the annual cycle and longevity. Ovid’s Fasti recounts her myth as Dido’s sister, linking her to exile and renewal. In poetry, she embodies temporal passage, festivity, and the blending of myth with folk ritual, often evoked in elegiac or calendrical verse to mark seasonal transitions.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anna Perenna, goddess of the cycle of the year, features in springtime verse: "Anna Perenna dances through March, scattering new beginnings"; Ovid’s Fasti describes revelers drinking to her name: "One cup for each year lived—Anna Perenna laughs in the vine"; A pastoral poem celebrates her festival: "By the Tiber’s bend, we toast Anna Perenna and the year’s rebirth"; She embodies time’s renewal: "Anna Perenna winds the clock of seasons with gentle hands"; In elegy, she contrasts mortal brevity: "You count years, Anna, but we count only days."
Additional Notes
Anna Perenna’s festival on March 15—the Ides of March—was marked by picnics, drinking, and songs along the Tiber, with revelers toasting “as many years as the cups we drain”; Ovid’s Fasti presents conflicting myths: she is either Dido’s sister who fled to Latium or a personification of the circling year (annus); her name combines “annus” (year) and “perennis” (lasting); poets use her to mark seasonal transition, cyclical time, or ironic contrasts (e.g., celebrating life on the day of Caesar’s assassination); she embodies the Roman fusion of rustic festivity and cosmic order.
Also Known As
year goddess eternal cycle March festival
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