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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard



Neoanacreontic

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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 contemporary revival or reworking of Anacreontic themes—wine, love, lightness—in modern diction and sensibility.

Detailed Definition
Neoanacreontic refers to poetry that revives the spirit of Anacreon—an ancient Greek lyricist known for light, amorous, and convivial verse—through themes of wine, love, and carpe diem in modern diction; popular in 18th-century Europe (e.g., Thomas Moore), it blends hedonism with melancholy, using agile meters and playful tone to celebrate fleeting joy while acknowledging time’s passage.
Example
Example in poetry:
Neoanacreontic: Frederick Seidel’s “Ooga-Booga” revives Anacreon’s wine-and-love themes with modern irony; 18th-century German Anacreontic odes praised Bacchus; Contemporary poets use light meters for dark subjects; Playful quatrains mask existential dread
Additional Notes
Modern imitation of Anacreontic verse (wine, love, revelry themes). Neoclassical revival form. Compare with original Greek meters and Renaissance adaptations.
Also Known As
New Anacreontic Modern drinking song Revival verse Contemporary symposium
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