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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

Regency Era

Historical And Literary Periods
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 1811-1820 period in Britain when the Prince Regent governed due to King George III's illness, characterized by refined aesthetics and social change. Bridged Georgian and Victorian periods and saw literary brilliance.

Detailed Definition
The Regency Era inspired poetry celebrating refined elegance and ironic wit. Poets like Byron and Keats emerged during this period. This era appears in poetry through refined and elegant aesthetics, ironic wit and sophistication, engagement with social satire, celebration of pleasure and beauty, sophisticated formal control, and establishment of the Regency as a distinctive period of literary achievement and aesthetic refinement.
Example
Example in poetry:
Regency Era poetry (early 19th century, roughly 1811-1820) bridges the formal Augustan style and the burgeoning Romanticism, with poets like Lord Byron capturing the fashionable skepticism and dramatic flair of the time; A poet could use the strict form of the heroic couplet, popular in the preceding era but still in use during the Regency Era, to satirize the elaborate social rituals and gossip of London society; Lord Byron's narrative poems, like Don Juan, embody the cynical wit, exotic settings, and charismatic protagonists that epitomized the Romantic hero and the fashionable aesthetic of the Regency Era; A poem might describe a lavish ball in detail, using formal, high-society language but subtly undercutting it with cynical observations about social maneuvering, a common theme in Regency Era literature; The era saw a rise in female poets like Felicia Hemans, whose work, though often sentimental, engaged with themes of patriotism and domesticity relevant to the conservative undertones of the Regency Era; An epistolary poem (a poem written as a letter) discussing a scandalous elopement would perfectly capture the dramatic and gossipy atmosphere of the Regency Era.
Additional Notes
The Regency Era (1811–1820) was a period of social elegance and artistic refinement in Britain, coinciding with Romanticism’s height. Poets such as Byron, Shelley, and Keats flourished, blending rebellion and beauty with deep emotion. Regency poetry often juxtaposed aristocratic excess with political reform and industrial change. Its cultural tone is both sensuous and revolutionary, embodying Romantic ideals of individualism and aesthetic freedom.
Also Known As
Regency Period Regency Age
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