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 Y

yclept

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

Named or called; the archaic past participle of "clepe," used as "yclept" or "by name yclept," indicating how someone or something is designated or known.

Detailed Definition
“Yclept” functions as a poetic synonym for “named,” often in constructions like “a knight yclept Sir Guy.” It appears in Spenser and medieval romance to introduce characters with archaic flair. Its passive form adds formality and rhythmic variation to epithets. Though obsolete, “yclept” survives in literary contexts to evoke heraldic or legendary naming traditions, enriching character introductions with historical texture.
Example
Example in poetry:
A knight yclept Sir Galahad (called, named); The place yclept the Valley of Death (called, known as); A maiden yclept Margaret the Fair (named, called); The sword yclept Excalibur (called, named); In days of old there lived a king yclept Arthur (named, called); The beast yclept the dragon (called, named)
Additional Notes
Yclept (also ycleped) is the archaic past participle of "clepe," meaning "named" or "called." The "y-" prefix marks past participles in Middle English, derived from Old English "ge-." Chaucer uses yclept regularly: "a knight ther was, and that a worthy man, yclept Sir Thopas." Students should recognize yclept as specifically medieval—even by Shakespeare's time it was deliberately archaic. Spenser employs yclept for medievalizing effect in The Faerie Queene. The construction typically follows "he was yclept [name]" or "by name yclept [name]." Understanding the y- prefix helps recognize other archaic past participles (ywis = known certainly, ywrought = wrought). Modern readers encounter yclept almost exclusively in Chaucer and conscious medieval imitation. The term completely disappeared from living language by 1600. In modern fantasy literature, yclept occasionally appears for pseudo-medieval atmosphere. Compare "called" (modern), "named" (modern), "cleped" (archaic present), and "yclept" (archaic past participle).
Also Known As
ycleped cleped called
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