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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

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Bedivere

Arthurian Legend
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

Loyal knight who returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake after Arthur’s death

Detailed Definition
Bedivere’s final act of obedience underscores themes of duty and faith. In poetry, he embodies the tension between human hesitation and divine command, serving as a bridge between mortal frailty and mythic destiny in Arthur’s legendary departure.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bedivere faithfully returns Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake in Malory’s account; Tennyson’s “The Passing of Arthur” portrays Bedivere’s internal struggle before obeying Arthur; Bedivere embodies loyalty and sorrow in elegiac poetry; Modern poets use Bedivere as a witness to Camelot’s end; His hesitation humanizes the knight in poetic retellings; Bedivere’s final act becomes a metaphor for relinquishing power.
Additional Notes
Bedivere is one of Arthur’s earliest and most loyal knights, famed for returning Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake at Arthur’s deathbed; his moment of hesitation humanizes him, making him a powerful figure for exploring themes of duty, grief, and faith—poets often contrast his loyalty with the betrayal of others like Mordred.
Also Known As
Sir Bedivere Bedwyr
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