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 H

Hepatic

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

“Hepatic” means relating to the liver or to liver disease. It may suggest jaundice, bile, bodily toxicity, or the older belief that the liver shaped temperament.

Detailed Definition
“Hepatic” is a medical adjective for conditions involving the liver, an organ associated with digestion, detoxification, and the production of bile. In older literature, liver disorders were often connected with biliousness, irritability, melancholy, or excess emotion through humoral medicine. Poets may use hepatic imagery to make illness feel inward, discolored, and oppressive, especially through references to bile or yellowed skin. The term can join physical disease to ideas of poisoned feeling, moral unease, or a body burdened by hidden corruption.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hepatic fires burning in his jaundiced eye (Lord Byron, "Don Juan"); A hepatic gloom casting shadows on his brow (John Keats, "Endymion"); Hepatic illness slowing the old man's tread (George Crabbe, "The Village"); The hepatic tide flowing dark through ancient veins (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Alastor"); Hepatic sluggishness lingering in the heavy air (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode")
Additional Notes
"Hepatic" relates to the liver, historically viewed in classical and medieval medicine as the seat of passions, dark emotions, bile, and bodily heat. In poetry influenced by humorism (such as Elizabethan or Jacobean verse), references to hepatic ailments or liver-based imagery signal deep-seated anger, melancholia, lust, or bodily toxicity. Understanding these historic medical associations helps students comprehend complex classical allusions—such as the myth of Prometheus, whose liver was daily consumed by an eagle—as symbolic representations of endless suffering and internal turmoil. Related terms include bilious, humoral, melancholic, and visceral.
Also Known As
Liverish Bilious Of the Liver
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