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

Forlorn

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 poetic mood evoking deep sadness, abandonment, and desolation, often conveyed through barren landscapes or isolated imagery.

Detailed Definition
Forlorn mood in poetry conveys profound loneliness and neglect through sparse imagery, hollow sounds, and isolated settings; it appears in elegies, exile poems, or urban laments—like Poe’s “The Raven”—where the speaker feels cut off from comfort or connection, evoking empathy through the raw exposure of vulnerability and loss.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Raven,” Poe’s speaker is forlorn after the bird confirms eternal separation from Lenore; Emily Dickinson’s “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” describes forlorn numbness after grief; In “Fern Hill,” Dylan Thomas mourns lost youth with forlorn nostalgia; Thomas Hardy’s “The Voice” expresses forlorn yearning for a dead lover; Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” portrays a woman forlorn by aging; In “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold laments a forlorn world without joy or faith.
Additional Notes
Forlorn mood suggests pitiful loneliness or abandonment, often with a touch of hope; conveyed through fragile imagery, minor-key sounds, and distant horizons—e.g., Emily Dickinson’s solitary speakers; related to desolate, mournful, and wistful moods; more plaintive than bleak or despairing.
Also Known As
Desolate Abandoned Lonely Woeful Heartbroken Despairing lorn comfortless woe-begone
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