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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Rococo Period

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

An eighteenth-century aesthetic period marked by lightness, ornament, intimacy, play, and cultivated pleasure.

Detailed Definition
Rococo poetry favored graceful surfaces, pastoral settings, flirtation, miniature forms, and scenes of private amusement, often responding to the grand seriousness of earlier court and religious styles. Its polished wit could appear frivolous, but its attention to leisure, gender performance, consumption, and theatrical identity also registered important social changes. The mode influenced lyric, epigram, verse letters, and salon writing before giving way to more public and morally earnest sensibilities.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rococo Period poetry favors lightness, elegance, play, and refined social pleasure, as seen in Alexander Pope’s polished satirical couplets; Voltaire’s witty verse often reflects the Rococo taste for conversation, irony, and urban sophistication; A Rococo pastoral poem might portray lovers in an artificial garden surrounded by fountains, shells, and decorative flowers; A poet using Rococo style may treat romance as a graceful game, balancing flirtatious language with delicate visual ornament.
Additional Notes
The Rococo Period developed in eighteenth-century Europe, especially in aristocratic and courtly settings, and is associated with elegance, pastel delicacy, flirtation, gardens, music, and private pleasure. Rococo poetry often uses playful tone, graceful description, sensual imagery, mythological ornament, and conversational intimacy rather than heroic seriousness. It overlaps with late Baroque culture but is generally lighter and less monumental. Related ideas include fête galante, pastoral fantasy, wit, and cultivated leisure.
Also Known As
Rococo Rococo Era
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