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

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Feverish

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

“Feverish” means affected by fever or resembling its heat, restlessness, and agitation. It can also describe intense, excited, or anxious activity.

Detailed Definition
“Feverish” refers literally to the raised temperature, sweating, thirst, delirium, and restless discomfort associated with fever. In poetry, it is especially useful because fever alters both body and perception: rooms shimmer, sleep becomes troubled, and ordinary sensations grow intense. The term may describe a sick speaker or a heated landscape, but it also works figuratively for hurried desire, political excitement, creative frenzy, or collective panic. Its blend of heat and instability helps poets portray moments when emotion exceeds calm judgment and the world seems charged with dangerous energy.
Example
Example in poetry:
Feverish brain consumed by wild untamed desire (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Epipsychidion"); A feverish pulse beating against the quiet hours (John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"); Feverish dreams haunting the solitary traveler (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"); The feverish city humming under neon lights (Walt Whitman, "Mannahatta"); Feverish longing for a land beyond the sea (Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage")
Additional Notes
"Feverish" denotes the burning heat, rapid pulse, and restless delirium of a fever, but figuratively describes frantic activity, intense emotional passion, or visionary inspiration. In Romantic and Symbolist poetry (such as John Keats or Arthur Rimbaud), feverish states are closely tied to the artistic process itself—where artistic creation is depicted as a consumed, burning state of heighten perception. Students should look for feverish diction (e.g., flushed, burning, delirious, restless) to spot moments where a speaker's emotional state blurs the line between passionate inspiration and bodily illness. Related terms include febrile, pyretic, frantic, and delirious.
Also Known As
Febrile Heated Agitated Delirious Fevered Remittent
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