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.

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

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hight

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

Named or called; the past tense of an archaic verb meaning to be named or to call, as in "He hight Sir Gawain" meaning "He was called Sir Gawain."

Detailed Definition
“Hight” appears in medieval poetry to introduce names—“a knight hight Lancelot.” It preserves narrative convention of formal naming. The term’s archaic flavor suits romance or epic, where identity is declared with ceremony. Poets use it to evoke oral tradition, grounding character in legendary or historical lineage.
Example
Example in poetry:
“He hight Sir Gareth of Orkney,” in Arthurian romance; In Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”: “A knight there was, and hight Sir Thopas”; “The stream that hight Lethe flows through dreams,” a mythological reference; “She hight Miranda, wonder of the isle,” adapting Shakespeare; “The hill that hight Calvary bore the cross”; The poet who hight “Orpheus” sang the world to tears.
Additional Notes
“Hight” is a fossilized past tense meaning “was called” (e.g., “a knight hight Lancelot”); though obsolete, it appears in pseudo-medieval or Spenserian verse to evoke chivalric romance and formal naming conventions.
Also Known As
named called known as
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