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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bedight

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

An archaic verb meaning to adorn, equip, or array something, often used poetically to describe decorative or prepared states.

Detailed Definition
Bedight means to deck out or furnish ornamentally, an archaic term favored in descriptive poetry for its vivid evocation of embellishment and preparation. Spenser and his successors employed it to paint chivalric scenes or natural splendor, adding layers of visual richness and historical texture. It enhances rhythmic flow in longer lines while signaling deliberate stylistic elevation. In verse, "bedight" contributes to themes of beauty, artifice, and transformation, allowing poets to blend sensory detail with antiquated charm that distinguishes their language from plain prose.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bedight: Exercise: "Describe the queen bedight for the grand coronation."; Definition-based: "Bedight" is an archaic past participle meaning adorned, dressed, or decked out, often in fine or ceremonial garments; Spenserian usage: Edmund Spenser employed archaic forms like "bedight" in "The Faerie Queene" to create a deliberately antique, chivalric atmosphere; Exercise variant: Describe a knight "bedight in armor bright" to practice archaic descriptive diction; Craft tip: "Bedight" pairs naturally with imagery of pageantry, royalty, and ritual, making it useful for mock-medieval or fantasy-inspired verse; Modern revival: Fantasy poets occasionally resurrect "bedight" to evoke a timeless, legendary quality in descriptions of characters or settings.
Additional Notes
Bedight, an archaic verb for adorning or equipping, enriches descriptive passages in epic or lyric poetry by suggesting ornate preparation, as seen in Keats or Tennyson. It conveys ritualistic or chivalric elegance, ideal for clothing metaphors or battle readiness; connect to "bedecked" or "arrayed" for synonym exploration. Tip for students: Use in iambic lines to maintain syllable count while infusing antique charm—analyze examples in "The Eve of St. Agnes" to understand its atmospheric contribution to romantic medievalism.
Also Known As
Bedecked Bedizened Dight Arrayed
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