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 F

Fervent

Mood
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 mood marked by intense emotional heat, sincerity, or zeal, often conveyed through urgent diction, elevated tone, or impassioned imagery.

Detailed Definition
Fervent mood in poetry conveys burning conviction through urgent rhythm, emphatic diction, and vivid imagery; it appears in love sonnets, political verse, or devotional lyrics—like Donne or Neruda—where emotion is not just felt but declared with unwavering intensity, transforming personal passion into a force that demands attention and belief.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to the West Wind,” Shelley’s fervent plea (“Make me thy lyre”) shows passionate urgency; In “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath’s fervent metaphors express unresolved trauma; In “If We Must Die,” Claude McKay’s fervent call to resistance (“Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack”) urges courage; In “The Second Coming,” Yeats’ fervent imagery conveys apocalyptic intensity; Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!” expresses fervent longing for union; In “Song of Myself,” Whitman’s fervent catalogues celebrate life with spiritual intensity.
Additional Notes
Fervent mood expresses intense and passionate feeling, often spiritual or ideological; signaled by urgent rhythm, heated diction, and emphatic repetition—e.g., devotional or revolutionary verse; overlaps with zealous, passionate, and ardent moods; distinct from ecstatic in its directed, purposeful energy.
Also Known As
Passionate Ardent Zealous Intense Devoted
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