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

Home › Glossary › Letter T

thy

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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 possessive pronoun meaning “your,” used with singular familiar or intimate address (e.g., “thy hand”).

Detailed Definition
“Thy” corresponds to the subject pronoun “thou” and was used in Early Modern English to indicate possession in informal or affectionate contexts. It dominates devotional poetry (e.g., “thy will be done”) and romantic verse, where it conveys tenderness, reverence, or personal bond. Its single syllable fits elegantly into metrical lines, and its archaic status now imbues poetry with solemnity or nostalgic intimacy. Unlike modern “your,” “thy” signals a world of direct, unmediated address—whether to a lover, God, or inner self.
Example
Example in poetry:
Thy beauty shines like the morning star (your, possessive); I pledge my sword to thy service (your service); Thy words have wounded me deeply (your words); What is thy name, fair maiden? (your name); Thy father was a noble man (your father); Speak thy mind freely here (your mind)
Additional Notes
Thy is the possessive form of "thou," meaning "your" when addressing one person familiarly. It appears before consonants (thy hand, thy father), while "thine" appears before vowels (thine eyes, thine honor) or standalone (that is thine). Students must master thy/thine distribution for Early Modern English. Shakespeare uses thy in intimate, familiar, or inferior address: parents to children, lovers, or superiors to subordinates. The Lord's Prayer begins "Our Father...thy kingdom come, thy will be done." Understanding possessive forms helps decode social relationships. By the 18th century, thy survived mainly in religious and poetic contexts. Modern readers encounter thy primarily in Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and hymns. Quakers preserve thy in religious speech. Confusing thy (your, familiar) with "the" or misunderstanding its intimacy register is common. Compare thy (possessive) with thou (subject) and thee (object).
Also Known As
thine your
Skip to main content