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 D

dizen'd

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

Dizened means dressed, decorated, or adorned—often with an implication of excessive, artificial, or showy ornament.

Detailed Definition
An archaic form of dizened, dizen’d describes someone or something that has been dressed up or embellished. The word can be neutral, but it often carries a mocking suggestion that the adornment is gaudy, overdone, or meant to conceal an unattractive reality. In poetry, it may be used ironically to contrast outward display with what lies beneath it.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Jonathan Swift’s A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, the speaker describes Corinna after she has laboriously replaced her cosmetics, artificial hair, false eye, padding, and other accessories: “Corinna in the Morning dizen’d, Who sees, will spew; who smells, be poison’d.” Here, dizen’d means “dressed up” or “made presentable.” Swift uses the term sarcastically: Corinna’s morning beautification is not presented as elegant adornment, but as a grotesque reconstruction of her appearance.
Additional Notes
Dizen’d is a contracted spelling of dizened, with the apostrophe marking the omitted syllable in -ed. The verb dizen was especially used for dressing, decking out, or ornamenting a person, sometimes with an implication of finery or artificial display. Related terms include adorned, decked, arrayed, and bedecked. Unlike the more neutral adorned, dizen’d can suggest excessive or tasteless decoration. In Swift’s poem, the word supports the satire: Corinna’s beauty depends on removable artificial items, so being “dizen’d” means being assembled into a public-facing appearance rather than naturally beautiful.
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