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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Merrily

Adverb
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

Joyfully and with lively good spirits. It often suggests song, movement, or celebration.

Detailed Definition
Merrily brings brightness and animation to poetic action. Birds may sing merrily, water may run merrily, or companions may travel merrily through a festive landscape. The word is common in ballads and songs because its rhythm and cheerful sound support musical phrasing. It can also be used ironically when outward revelry masks danger or grief. In that contrast, merrily becomes a way to show how celebration may continue even while the poem hints at loss or change.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The lark rose merrily into the blue,” linking cheerful movement to song; Robert Herrick writes of flowers that “smile and die merrily,” using the word for brief delight; “The leaves danced merrily along the lane” personifies autumn with a joyful adverb; A poet might write, “Merrily the river ran, though winter stood nearby,” to contrast happiness and hardship
Additional Notes
Merrily is a lively adverb often associated with singing, dancing, bells, or flowing water. In older poetry, its cheerful surface may be sincere, but it can also create irony beside violence, loss, or decay.
Also Known As
Cheerfully Gaily Blithely
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