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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spake

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

The archaic past tense of "speak," as in "he spake the truth" meaning "he spoke the truth"; used for deliberate archaism or biblical tone.

Detailed Definition
“Spake” appears in Early Modern and biblical poetry to maintain archaic tone or meter. It conveys authoritative or prophetic utterance. The term’s formality suits elevated diction. Poets use it to frame divine speech, ancestral wisdom, or solemn declaration, where “spake” distances modern casualness, reinforcing themes of tradition, revelation, and oral authority in narrative and meditative verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
“He spake with the voice of prophecy,” in a biblical tone; In Milton: “Thus spake the seraph”; “She spake no word, yet all was said”; “Spake he truth, or flattery?” questions the skeptic; “The ghost spake from the tomb”; Spake the wind through the pines at night.
Additional Notes
“Spake” is the archaic past tense of “speak,” essential for reading pre-18th-century poetry; its use preserves rhythmic flow and intimate address, especially in prophetic, divine, or dramatic utterances (“he spake and it was done”).
Also Known As
spoke
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