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

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knight

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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

A mounted warrior granted honorary or feudal status, often bound by chivalric codes

Detailed Definition
The knight appears in poetry as an archetype of valor, loyalty, and moral conflict. Central to medieval romance and epic, knights embodied ideals of courage, courtly love, and Christian duty. In verse—from Malory to Tennyson—they symbolize the tension between violence and virtue, honor and hubris. Poets use knights to explore ethical dilemmas, the passage from youth to wisdom, and the enduring allure of heroic identity.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Chaucer’s "The Knight’s Tale," the knight embodies chivalric virtue and martial honor; Shakespeare’s sonnets compare lovers to knights in service of beauty; Victorian poets like Tennyson revive knights in Arthurian myth; The knight in Spenser’s "Faerie Queene" allegorizes moral quests; Knights appear in crusade verse as both holy warriors and flawed men; Their armor symbolizes both protection and burden in elegiac poetry.
Additional Notes
Knights were mounted warriors granted status by monarchs, bound by chivalric codes emphasizing loyalty, courage, and piety—though romanticized, many were landholders or administrators; poetic knights range from heroic (Spenser) to ironic (Cervantes); understanding their feudal and social roles deepens allegorical and historical readings.
Also Known As
Sir knight bachelor The Warrior Warrior chevalier
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