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 E

Exanthematous

Disease
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

“Exanthematous” describes a disease marked by an eruptive skin rash, especially one associated with an infection. It is a technical term for visible bodily eruption.

Detailed Definition
“Exanthematous” comes from exanthem, a medical word for a widespread rash or skin eruption, often occurring during infectious illnesses such as measles or scarlet fever. The adjective is uncommon in ordinary speech, so in poetry it may create a clinical, archaic, or unsettling texture. Its emphasis on what breaks visibly across the skin makes it apt for images of contagion, fever, exposure, and the body made public. Poets may also use rash imagery figuratively for emotional disturbance, social unrest, or corruption spreading across a landscape or community.
Example
Example in poetry:
An exanthematous blush spread across her pale cheek (John Keats, "Hyperion"); Exanthematous spots marked the passage of the plague (Thomas Nashe, "A Litany in Time of Plague"); The exanthematous fever painted the child's face red (George Crabbe, "The Village"); Exanthematous fire burning beneath the skin (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Masque of Anarchy"); An exanthematous flare upon the morning horizon (Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass")
Additional Notes
"Exanthematous" is a specialized medical adjective describing diseases accompanied by skin eruptions or rashes (such as measles, smallpox, or scarlet fever). In poetry, particularly in historical elegies, plague literature, or apocalyptic verse, exanthematous imagery creates vivid, visceral sensory details of physical affliction. Such term choices accentuate themes of mortality, contagion, and bodily vulnerability. Students analyzing medical humanities in literature can look at how exanthematous descriptions heighten horror or symbolize internal spiritual corruption breaking out onto the visible surface of the skin. Related terms include eruptive, pustular, exanthem, and pestilential.
Also Known As
Eruptive Rash-Bearing Efflorescent
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