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

Fever

Medical 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

An elevated body temperature caused by illness or infection. In poetry it often represents passion, agitation, or the burning intensity of emotion.

Detailed Definition
Fever is one of the most universal symptoms of disease, marked by heightened body temperature and physical discomfort. Because it produces sensations of heat, restlessness, and delirium, the word readily lends itself to metaphor. Poets frequently use fever to describe states of intense emotional excitement, love, ambition, or anxiety. The image of a body burning with illness parallels the experience of overwhelming feeling, making fever a vivid symbol of passion that consumes both body and mind.
Example
Example in poetry:
The lover burned with a fever of passion; He lay delirious in bed with a high fever; Poets use fever to symbolize intense desire or illness; The fever broke in the cool of the morning; She sang of the fever that took her brother; The city was in the grip of a yellow fever outbreak.
Additional Notes
Fever is one of the most common medical metaphors in poetry. While medically it indicates elevated body temperature caused by infection, poetically it often symbolises intense emotion or restless agitation. Love, ambition, anger, and creativity may burn like a fever in the blood. Fever imagery suggests heat, urgency, and uncontrollable energy. Many writers contrast feverish excitement with calm or healing coolness, creating powerful emotional contrasts in verse.
Also Known As
Pyrexia Febrile Illness High Temperature
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