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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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Lancelot du Lac

Arthurian Legend
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

The greatest knight of the Round Table, raised by the Lady of the Lake, whose love for Guinevere dooms Camelot.

Detailed Definition
Lancelot du Lac embodies the paradox of perfect prowess and fatal flaw. In poetry, he represents the conflict between earthly passion and spiritual duty, making him the tragic heart of Arthurian downfall.
Example
Example in poetry:
Lancelot du Lac, the greatest knight, appears in poetry as a symbol of flawed greatness—e.g., “Lancelot du Lac’s strength was his love; his ruin, that it knew no bounds”; Poets use him to explore the tragedy of divided loyalty: “He saved the queen, but sank the realm”; In confessional verse, he embodies human contradiction: “No man loved Arthur more, or betrayed him deeper”; His name evokes romantic heroism in dramatic lyrics; Contemporary poetry frames him as the archetype of the gifted soul undone by its own passion.
Additional Notes
Lancelot du Lac—the greatest knight, raised by the Lady of the Lake—is the embodiment of flawed greatness: peerless in prowess, doomed by love. Poets use him to explore the tragedy of divided loyalty, the tension between human passion and divine duty, and the cost of excellence. For students, Lancelot is the heart of Camelot’s paradox: his virtues sustain the Table, his love destroys it—making him essential for analyses of heroism, sin, and the psychological depth of Arthurian romance.
Also Known As
Lancelot of the Lake Sir Lancelot The Best Knight
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