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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argosy

Archaic Terms
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 large merchant vessel used in foreign trade, especially laden with valuable cargo; evokes images of wealth and maritime adventure in Renaissance literature.

Detailed Definition
“Argosy” evokes maritime grandeur and exotic commerce, originating from “Ragusa” (modern Dubrovnik), a historic trading port. Shakespeare popularized it in “The Merchant of Venice,” linking it to wealth, risk, and global adventure. Poets used it to symbolize ambition, fortune, or the fragility of human enterprise. Its sonorous syllables and romantic connotations made it ideal for lyrical descriptions of sea voyages or economic metaphor.
Example
Example in poetry:
"A rich argosy sailed from Venice, laden with spice and silk," as in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice; Milton compares Satan’s shield to an "argosy" in Paradise Lost; Romantic poets used "argosy" to evoke exotic trade and adventure; "The argosy foundered on the rocks of despair," a metaphor in an allegorical poem; Coleridge’s dream-vision includes "an argosy of cloud"; The poet likens his thoughts to an argosy drifting toward unknown shores.
Additional Notes
“Argosy” evokes maritime grandeur and mercantile adventure, famously used by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice; in poetry, it symbolizes wealth, risk, or distant lands, often contrasted with humble vessels to underscore themes of ambition or loss.
Also Known As
merchant ship galleon carrack
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