A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

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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English Cavalier school

Movement
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 group of seventeenth-century poets loyal to Charles I, marked by elegant and light verse.

Detailed Definition
The English Cavalier school comprises 17th-century poets—such as Herrick, Lovelace, and Suckling—who wrote witty, elegant, and often amorous lyrics celebrating courtly life, carpe diem themes, and loyalty to the monarchy; their verse blends classical allusion with colloquial ease, favoring clarity, grace, and metrical regularity over metaphysical complexity.
Example
Example in poetry:
English Cavalier school: Poetry by 17th-century royalist poets like Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, and Thomas Carew; Focused on lyrical grace, carpe diem themes, and courtly life; Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” exemplifies Cavalier elegance; Carew’s polished and witty lyricism celebrating love and pleasure.4030|English meter: Iambic pentameter as seen in Shakespeare’s plays (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”); Trochaic tetrameter in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (“Once upon a midnight dreary”); Anapestic trimeter in Clement Clarke Moore’s “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”; Dactylic hexameter as used in classical English epic adaptations.
Additional Notes
A group of 17th-century English poets (including Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling) who supported King Charles I; their poetry is characterized by sophisticated wit, carpe diem themes, and often lighter, polished verse forms.
Also Known As
Cavalier poets English Cavalier movement Cavalier school Cavalier lyricists Cavalier Poets (England)
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