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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thence

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 archaic adverb meaning "from that place" or "from that time," indicating origin, direction, or consequence; often used to create formal or elevated poetic diction.

Detailed Definition
Thence is an archaic adverb rooted in Old English that signifies movement or derivation from a specified place, time, or cause, equivalent to modern "from there" or "thereafter." In poetry, it lends an antique, formal tone that enhances rhythmic flow and evokes historical or biblical atmospheres, as seen in works by Shakespeare, Milton, and Romantic poets who favored elevated language to convey journeys, causality, or temporal shifts. Its usage allows for concise expression of sequence or origin without modern casualness, making it ideal for narrative verse, epic storytelling, or reflective lyrics exploring fate, exile, or consequence. Poets choose "thence" to imbue lines with dignity and timelessness, distinguishing their work from everyday speech while maintaining metrical precision and archaic authenticity that resonates with classical traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
Thence: Exercise: "Use 'thence' to link cause and distant effect."; Definition-based: "Thence" means "from that place" or "from that time," indicating movement or consequence originating elsewhere; Miltonic usage: John Milton uses "thence" repeatedly in "Paradise Lost" to trace journeys and causal chains across vast cosmic distances; Exercise variant: Describe a river's course using "thence" to link one geographic point to another, as in "thence it wound toward the sea"; Craft tip: "Thence" is especially useful in narrative or epic poetry for compressing spatial or logical transitions into a single word; Contemporary note: Legal and formal prose retains "thence" occasionally, but in poetry it now signals a deliberately archaic or epic register.
Additional Notes
Thence indicates origin or consequence from a point, enriching directional or causal logic in narrative poetry like Spenser's Faerie Queene. It adds precision and antiquity, akin to "therefrom"; useful for tracing journeys or inferences. Students: Map its usage in epic quests to build spatial-temporal awareness, substituting in modern prose for exercises on concise archaic linkage that deepens plot momentum and scholarly insight into pre-modern syntax.
Also Known As
Thenceforth From thence
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