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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servitor

Archaic Terms
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 servant or attendant; someone who serves another person or institution, particularly in educational or domestic contexts.

Detailed Definition
"Servitor" derives from Latin "servitor" (servant), referring to attendants, servants, or specifically to university students who paid reduced fees by performing servant duties for fellow students or college. The term distinguished types of service—servitors held positions of formal attendance. Medieval and Renaissance literature used it when depicting household organization, academic life, or social hierarchies where precise vocabulary for service roles mattered. The word carried more dignity than "servant," suggesting recognized position rather than mere servility. Poets employed "servitor" when exploring themes of service, loyalty, and social position where the specific nature of service relationships required acknowledgment. Its Latin origin gave it learned formality appropriate to institutional contexts. The term's precision—not just any servant but one holding particular role—enriched vocabulary for describing complex social hierarchies. Its archaic quality suited historical settings requiring authentic period terminology for service relationships and institutional structures.
Example
Example in poetry:
The lord's servitors attended to his needs; "Faithful servitors served the household"; Servitor means a servant or attendant; University servitors worked for their education; The servitor brought wine to the banquet table; Medieval households employed many servitors
Additional Notes
A servitor was commonly a university student who worked as a servant in exchange for tuition, especially at Oxford or Cambridge, though it could also mean any attendant or domestic helper. In poetry or drama, the word can suggest humility, loyalty, or social inferiority, reflecting hierarchical structures of the period. Understanding its dual sense—both academic and domestic—can reveal subtle class or character nuances in historical writing.
Also Known As
servant attendant waiter helper
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