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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ycleped

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 past participle meaning "called" or "named," used poetically to designate or title in a deliberately antiquated style.

Detailed Definition
Ycleped, derived from Old English, functions as a poetic synonym for "named" or "called," often inserted for its distinctive archaic flavor and metrical utility. Renaissance and later poets, including Spenser in "The Faerie Queene," employed it to signal deliberate medievalism or to achieve specific rhyme and rhythm requirements while evoking chivalric romance. It adds layers of quaint formality, allowing subtle commentary on identity, reputation, or nomenclature within verse. The term's rarity enhances its ornamental value, making it a favored device for creating distance from modern language and immersing readers in stylized historical worlds.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ycleped: Exercise: "Introduce a character ycleped by an ancient title."; Definition-based: "Ycleped" is an archaic past participle meaning "called" or "named," derived from Old English "clipian," to call; Spenserian and Chaucerian usage: Both Chaucer and Spenser use "ycleped" to introduce characters with deliberately antique formality, as in "a knight ycleped Sir Guy"; Exercise variant: Introduce a fictional poet or hero using the formula "ycleped [name]" to practice archaic naming conventions; Craft tip: The prefix "y-" marks a past participle in Old and Middle English, so "ycleped" literally parallels modern "called"; Contemporary revival: Fantasy and mock-medieval poetry occasionally resurrects "ycleped" for comic or nostalgic antiquarian effect.
Additional Notes
Ycleped, meaning called or named, injects deliberate antiquarian flair in mock-epic or satirical poetry like Pope's, designating titles with ironic distance. It signals self-conscious archaism for stylistic effect; connect to "yclept" variants. Usage tip: Professors can guide analysis of its role in framing characters or places, encouraging students to deploy in creative pastiches for humor or homage, illuminating how such terms layer historical parody onto modern themes.
Also Known As
Yclept Clept Cleped clepe
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