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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.

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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Naïs

Literary Character
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 water nymph in pastoral and mythological poetry, representing springs, rivers, and the feminine spirit of fresh water.

Detailed Definition
Naïs appears in classical poetry as one of the Naiads, nymphs inhabiting springs and streams; her presence in pastoral verse connects shepherds to the divine powers of nature. The character embodies the sacredness of water sources essential to pastoral life, her beauty and divinity elevating the landscape beyond mere scenery. Naïs demonstrates pastoral poetry's mythological dimension, populating the countryside with divine beings who make the natural world enchanted and ensure that shepherds move through spaces alive with spiritual presence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Naïs appears in classical poetry as a water nymph or naiad; Poets use Naïs to represent aquatic beauty and nature spirits; In pastoral and mythological tradition, Naïs embodies the divine feminine presence in natural settings; A poet might invoke Naïs when depicting springs, streams, or natural sanctuaries; Naïs serves as a connection between pastoral and mythological realms; The character adds supernatural dimension to pastoral landscapes
Additional Notes
Naïs represents a water nymph or naiad, divine feminine spirits inhabiting springs, streams, and freshwater sources. Unlike mortal women, naiads embody nature's sacred dimension. Poets invoke Naïs when depicting sacred natural spaces, the divine presence in landscape, and supernatural feminine beauty. The character demonstrates pastoral's incorporation of mythological elements, showing rural settings as inhabited not just by mortal shepherds but also by divine beings who personify natural features and connect landscape with the sacred.
Also Known As
water nymph stream maiden fresh spring spirit
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