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

fop

Archaic 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

A foolish man excessively concerned with fashion, appearance, and social display.

Detailed Definition
The fop emerged prominently in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature as a satirical figure obsessed with clothes, manners, and refinement. In poetry, the fop symbolises vanity, emptiness, and misplaced values, often contrasted with moral depth or genuine feeling. Poets exploited the term for sharp social critique, using the fop’s superficiality to mock aristocratic excess and to highlight the gap between outward elegance and inward worth.
Example
Example in poetry:
The fop spends hours to win a look that costs no thought; Augustan verse delights in stripping fops of false refinement; A fop mistakes attire for worth and polish for sense; The poet laughs as fop and feather fall together
Additional Notes
Fop is closely related to coxcomb but stresses foolishness over arrogance. In poetry, fops are easy targets for mockery, representing excess refinement without intellect. The term flourished in Augustan satire, where poets attacked fashionable emptiness. Recognising a fop helps readers understand broader critiques of consumerism, imitation, and the decline of moral seriousness.
Also Known As
Coxcomb Popinjay Fribble
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