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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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Chancellorsville

Battles
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 1863 Confederate victory under Lee, marked by Jackson’s flanking maneuver and his fatal wounding.

Detailed Definition
Chancellorsville is famed for tactical brilliance but foreshadowed Southern decline. In poetry, it symbolizes tragic irony and the cost of genius—appearing in Civil War verse as a moment of fleeting glory shadowed by loss, exploring themes of brotherhood, fate, and the war’s inexorable momentum toward ruin.
Example
Example in poetry:
Chancellorsville, Lee’s 1863 victory marred by Jackson’s death, appears in Southern poetry as tragic triumph; A modern elegy might contrast Chancellorsville’s thickets with Jackson’s final ride; In a dramatic monologue, a Union soldier recalls Stonewall’s flank attack at dusk; A sonnet could frame Chancellorsville as hubris before Gettysburg; Contemporary poets use Chancellorsville to reflect on fratricidal war; A free-verse poem might voice a freedman watching armies pass through his woods.
Additional Notes
Chancellorsville (1863) showcased Lee’s audacity but cost Stonewall Jackson’s life; its paradox—Confederate triumph shadowed by irreplaceable loss—makes it a rich subject in Southern poetry exploring glory, grief, and the war’s tragic arc.
Also Known As
Battle of Chancellorsville
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