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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

clepe

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

To call, name, or designate someone or something; an archaic verb meaning "to give a name to," as in "yclept" meaning "called" or "named."

Detailed Definition
“Clepe” comes from Old English “clyppan” and appears in medieval poetry (e.g., Chaucer) as a formal verb for naming or summoning. It lends archaic dignity to invocations or epithets (“he cleped him Lionheart”). Though replaced by “call,” its use in verse preserves linguistic heritage and enhances ceremonial or mythic tone, especially in genealogies, prophecies, or allegorical naming.
Example
Example in poetry:
They clepe him Harold, though his name be something else (call, name); What do men clepe this flower that blooms at night? (what do they call); In ancient times they did clepe such men heroes (designate, style); The village folk clepe her the wise woman (commonly call); How shall we clepe this new-found star? (name, designate); The place is cleped Avalon in legend (is called, is named)
Additional Notes
Clepe (also ycleped/yclept in past tense) appears mainly in Chaucer and medieval romances. The "y-" prefix in yclept is an archaic past participle marker from Old English. Chaucer uses "men clepen" (men call) frequently. By Shakespeare's time, clepe was already archaic, used mainly for medieval effect. The construction typically follows "he was cleped [name]" or "that men clepen [name]." For students, recognizing clepe helps with Chaucerian and medieval texts. In later poetry, using clepe or yclept signals deliberate medievalism, as in Spenser's archaizing or 19th-century Arthurian revivals. The term essentially disappeared after 1500 except as conscious archaism.
Also Known As
clepen ycleped call
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