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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

Codrus

Literary Character
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 shepherd-poet in pastoral verse, often representing poetic skill and the transmission of bucolic song traditions.

Detailed Definition
Codrus appears in Virgil's Eclogues and later pastoral poetry as a shepherd celebrated for his singing abilities, his name becoming associated with pastoral artistry. The character embodies the continuity of pastoral song across generations, often teaching or inspiring younger shepherds. Codrus enriches the bucolic tradition by emphasizing that pastoral poetry has a history and lineage, with master singers passing their craft to successors, ensuring the genre's perpetuation and development.
Example
Example in poetry:
Codrus appears in Virgil's Eclogues as a shepherd-poet of modest means; Poets use Codrus to represent poetic dedication despite poverty; In pastoral tradition, Codrus embodies the poor but talented artist; A poet might invoke Codrus when exploring themes of art versus material wealth; Codrus serves as a figure showing that poetic gifts transcend economic status; The name became proverbial for poverty combined with artistic merit
Additional Notes
Codrus appears in Virgil as a poor shepherd-poet, his poverty becoming proverbial in later literature. Despite material want, Codrus possesses poetic gifts, embodying the idea that artistic talent transcends economic circumstances. Poets invoke Codrus when celebrating art's independence from wealth, defending poetry's value against materialistic measures, or depicting the struggling artist. The character represents the tradition of the impoverished but talented poet, anticipating later Romantic notions of the starving artist. Codrus demonstrates pastoral's awareness of economic realities while insisting on art's spiritual or aesthetic value beyond financial reward.
Also Known As
last king humble shepherd sacrificial figure
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