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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

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Saint Louis IX

Saints
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 medieval king remembered for justice, humility, and the tension between political authority and spiritual responsibility.

Detailed Definition
Saint Louis IX of France offers poetry a figure in whom crown and conscience are continually tested against each other. He was known for legal reforms, public justice, and religious devotion, yet his life also belongs to the complexities of medieval power and crusade. His name is useful for poems about rulers, courts, judgment, inherited duty, and the uneasy hope that authority might be disciplined by compassion rather than vanity.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem may present Saint Louis IX beneath an oak tree as a ruler seeking justice outside the walls of a courtroom; A poem about kingship can contrast Saint Louis IX’s authority with his obligation to serve the poor and judge fairly; A sonnet might use Saint Louis IX’s crusading history to examine the tension between devotion, power, and human cost; A historical lyric can portray Saint Louis IX wearing a crown that feels less like privilege than a burden of responsibility
Additional Notes
Saint Louis IX of France was a medieval king praised for concern for justice, charitable humility, and religious devotion. He offers poets a way to explore the responsibilities and contradictions of power: a ruler may seek fairness while still participating in warfare and hierarchy. Related themes include kingship, moral authority, public duty, judgment, and the tension between crown and conscience.
Also Known As
Saint Louis Louis of France
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