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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 S

Stimichon

Literary Character
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 rustic servant or shepherd in pastoral poetry, representing the working aspect of rural life beyond idealized singing.

Detailed Definition
Stimichon appears in pastoral contexts as a figure engaged in agricultural labor, his presence grounding the bucolic world in practical work and realistic rural activities. The character represents the distinction between different social levels even within the pastoral world, acknowledging servants and laborers alongside singing shepherds. Stimichon demonstrates that pastoral poetry, while idealized, sometimes acknowledges the economic realities and social hierarchies of actual countryside life.
Example
Example in poetry:
Stimichon appears in classical pastoral poetry as a shepherd character; Poets might use Stimichon to populate their pastoral landscapes; In the pastoral tradition, Stimichon represents one of the shepherd community; A poet could invoke Stimichon when creating variety among characters; Stimichon serves as a typical pastoral name; The character adds to the social texture of pastoral scenes
Additional Notes
Stimichon appears in pastoral poetry as a working shepherd or servant, representing labor's reality in rural settings. Unlike singing shepherds focused on love and art, Stimichon embodies the working aspect of pastoral life. Poets use such characters when acknowledging agricultural labor, showing that bucolic communities included workers beyond idealized singer-lovers. The character demonstrates pastoral's occasional attention to class distinctions and actual work required to sustain rural life.
Also Known As
singing elder aged bard contest judge
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