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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thee

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

An old singular object pronoun meaning “you,” used when addressing one person familiarly or intimately.

Detailed Definition
“Thee” is the objective form of “thou,” used in Early Modern English for direct address in intimate, poetic, or devotional contexts. It appears in prayers, love poems, and dramatic soliloquies to convey closeness, reverence, or emotional intensity. Unlike the formal “you,” “thee” implied familiarity or equality, though it could also express humility before God. Its rhythmic brevity suited iambic meter, and its obsolescence now lends a timeless, lyrical quality to poetry, evoking sincerity and personal connection.
Example
Example in poetry:
I give this ring to thee (you, objective case); All my love I pledge to thee (to you); Let me come with thee on thy journey (you, with you); My heart belongs to thee alone (to you); I shall wait for thee forever (you, objective); This gift is meant for thee (for you, to you)
Additional Notes
Thee is the objective case of "thou"—used when "you" is the object of verb or preposition (I see thee, to thee, with thee). Students must master thou/thee distinction for reading Early Modern English. The declension: thou (subject), thee (object), thy (possessive before consonant), thine (possessive before vowel or standalone). Shakespeare uses thee constantly in intimate, informal, or lower-status address. Using "thee" versus "you" encoded social relationships—thee for intimacy, family, inferiors; you for formality, respect, strangers, superiors. In the King James Bible, thee addresses God (paradoxically both intimate and reverential). By the 18th century, thou/thee were declining except in religious contexts and poetry. Modern Quakers preserve thee in religious speech. Understanding thee's grammatical function and social implications is essential for Early Modern literature. Confusing thee and thou is a common student error.
Also Known As
the you 'ee theäs
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