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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Remittent

Disease
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

“Remittent” describes a fever or illness that lessens at intervals without fully disappearing. It suggests recurring weakness, fluctuating pain, and uncertain recovery.

Detailed Definition
In medical language, remittent commonly describes a fever that rises and falls while remaining present, unlike an intermittent fever that may cease completely between attacks. In poetry, it can give illness a temporal pattern: heat recedes, strength returns briefly, and suffering gathers again. Such rhythms may mirror grief, memory, desire, or political unrest, all of which can seem to ease without being cured. The term appears when poets want disease to feel cyclical, watchful, and persistently unresolved.
Example
Example in poetry:
Remittent fever coming and going with the moon (John Keats, "Endymion"); A remittent pain that leaves brief intervals of ease (Emily Brontë, "A Death-Scene"); Remittent light flickering across the stormy sea (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"); Remittent grief returning with the evening shade (Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"); Remittent hope rising only to fall again (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Prometheus Unbound")
Additional Notes
"Remittent" describes a condition (especially a fever) that ebbs and flows, abating at times without ever fully disappearing. In poetic analysis, remittent patterns serve as a structural and thematic model for recurring grief, lingering illness, or haunting memories that return in cycles. Show students how poets mirror remittent fevers using repeating refrains, cyclical stanza structures, or returning motifs that rise and subside across a poem. Related terms include recurrent, relapsing, intermittent, and fluctuating.
Also Known As
Recurring Relapsing Intermittent Feverish
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