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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chaunteth

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

Third-person singular present tense of “chaunt” (an old spelling of “chant”), meaning “he/she/it sings” in a rhythmic or ritual manner.

Detailed Definition
“Chaunteth” appears in Middle and Early Modern English religious and lyrical poetry to describe sacred or ceremonial singing, often by choirs, spirits, or nature itself. The archaic “-eth” ending and variant spelling “chaunt” (from Old French “chanter”) lend a liturgical or otherworldly quality. Poets like Milton or Herbert used such forms to evoke devotional atmosphere or cosmic harmony, where chanting signifies divine order or angelic praise. The term’s musicality aligns with metrical demands while reinforcing themes of transcendence, ritual, and the interplay between human and heavenly voices.
Example
Example in poetry:
The lark chaunteth at dawn, her melody sweet upon the morning air; In springtime the brook chaunteth as it flows over smooth stones; The minstrel chaunteth tales of ancient kings in the great hall; She chaunteth hymns of praise within the chapel walls; The nightingale chaunteth her sorrowful song beneath the moon; He chaunteth verses from old ballads to ease his weary heart
Additional Notes
"Chaunteth" represents the Early Modern English conjugation pattern where third-person singular verbs add "-eth" instead of the modern "-s" ending. This archaic verb form appears frequently in texts from the 14th through 17th centuries, including Chaucer, Spenser, and the King James Bible. The spelling "chaunt" itself reflects Middle English orthography before the standardization of "chant." In poetry, this form creates a distinctive medieval or Renaissance atmosphere and adds an extra syllable that can be valuable for meter. Related forms include "singeth," "sayeth," and "goeth." The word often appears in pastoral poetry describing birdsong or religious contexts describing hymns and liturgical singing. When using this term, poets should be consistent with other archaic verb forms in the same piece to maintain linguistic authenticity and avoid jarring anachronisms.
Also Known As
chanteth singeth
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