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

forthy

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

An adverb or conjunction meaning therefore, for that reason, or accordingly; used in archaic or dialectal English to show causation.

Detailed Definition
"Forthy" (also "forthy") combines elements suggesting "for that" or "for this," functioning as an archaic conjunction or adverb meaning "therefore" or "for that reason." The term appears in medieval poetry, particularly in dialectal or Northern English texts, as a causal connective linking premises to conclusions. Its use in Scots and Northern poetry gave it regional associations that poets exploited for authentic medieval or rural atmosphere. The word's brevity made it metrically useful while maintaining archaic dignity appropriate to pseudo-medieval or historical verse. Spenser and others who cultivated deliberately archaic language included such terms to achieve linguistic distance from contemporary usage. "Forthy" exemplifies how obsolete logical connectives enriched poetic vocabulary, offering alternatives to standard "therefore" that carried additional atmospheric and rhythmic benefits. Its obscurity reinforced the antique quality desired in romance and historical poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
We must hurry forthy to reach shelter by nightfall; "Forthy let us make haste while daylight lasts"; Forthy means therefore or for that reason; The storm approaches; forthy we must depart; Forthy do I counsel caution in this venture; The law is clear; forthy the judgment stands
Additional Notes
Forthy appears primarily in Middle English and Northern dialect poetry as logical connector, showing causal relationships. Chaucer and medieval texts employ it where modern English would use "therefore" or "thus." The term's obsolescence obscures how Middle English constructed logical argument differently from modern usage. Related to "therefore" and "thus" but preserves older form. Essential for analyzing medieval logical structures, how archaic English signals causation, and the evolution of conjunctions. The term's dialectal preservation shows regional variation in logical connectors. Useful for discussing how poetry constructs argument, causal language evolution, and differences between medieval and modern logical expression. Its presence marks deliberately archaic or dialectal style in later imitators.
Also Known As
therefore for that reason hence thus
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