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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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gilded vocabulary

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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

Luxurious or elevated diction that embellishes poetic expression

Detailed Definition
Gilded vocabulary refers to a poet’s deliberate use of rare, archaic, or sumptuous words—often Latinate or French-derived—to create an aura of refinement, opulence, or artificial beauty; it signals stylistic self-consciousness and may critique or celebrate aestheticism.
Example
Example in poetry:
Gilded vocabulary uses ornate, archaic, or luxurious diction: Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”: “Ne other creature in that desert wide”; Oscar Wilde’s decadent poems: “lilies wan and roses faint”; Contemporary pastiche: “Her tresses, spun of moonlit gossamer, did gleam”; Such diction appears in fantasy poetry or neo-Victorian verse; It can critique or celebrate excess; Often paired with elaborate syntax.
Additional Notes
gilded vocabulary: A highly ornate, florid, or elevated choice of words, often favoring rare or deliberately beautiful terms; a hallmark of the Golden Style or gilded verse.
Also Known As
ornamental diction embellished lexicon gilded word-hoard jeweled phrasing Aureate diction
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