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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

roscadh

Dialect
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 variant form of rosc, denoting the archaic rhetorical verse or incantatory prose-poetry of early Irish literature, characterised by dense alliteration and obscure language.

Detailed Definition
Roscadh is closely related to rosc and describes the same tradition of heightened, incantatory utterance found in the oldest strata of Irish literary texts. The term suggests both the formal qualities of this archaic verse — its alliterative density, its gnomic compression — and the ceremonial contexts in which it was delivered. As a poetic category it represents the most ancient surviving layer of Irish verbal art, predating even the formalised bardic metres. Modern poets interested in recovering the sound-textures of pre-Christian Irish have engaged with roscadh as a resource, finding in its rhythmic intensity an alternative to the more familiar post-classical metres.
Example
Example in poetry:
Roscadh refers to the act of composing or reciting rosc passages; The roscadh requires different skills than pure verse composition; Performers adjust roscadh delivery based on content and context; The roscadh tradition preserves intermediate forms between prose and poetry; Training in roscadh develops versatility in poetic expression; Modern writers practice roscadh to expand range of stylistic options.
Additional Notes
Roscadh is a variant of rosc, denoting the same archaic rhetorical style. It is used in scholarly discussions to categorize specific textual features. Poets employ roscadh for moments of intense emotion or supernatural intervention. It creates a hypnotic effect through sound patterns. Understanding roscadh helps analyze the linguistic texture of early Irish manuscripts. It shows the importance of oral performance in preserving and transmitting complex ideas. Roscadh is a testament to the sophistication of early Irish rhetoric.
Also Known As
rhetoric incantatory verse archaic prose-poetry
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