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

yea

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

Yes; an affirmative answer or agreement; used to express assent, confirmation, or emphasis, often in formal, biblical, or archaic contexts as an alternative to "yes."

Detailed Definition
“Yea” was the standard affirmative in Old and Middle English, contrasting with “nay” for negation. It appears frequently in biblical texts, legal oaths, and poetic dialogues to convey solemn agreement or emphatic assent. In poetry, “yea” often carries ceremonial weight, as in vows, prophecies, or divine pronouncements, where its formal tone underscores gravity or truth. Its rhythmic brevity also serves metrical needs in verse, fitting neatly into iambic or trochaic lines. Though replaced by “yes” in modern English, “yea” endures in literary contexts to evoke antiquity, piety, or rhetorical power.
Example
Example in poetry:
Will you come? Yea, I shall come gladly (yes, affirmation); Yea, though I walk through the valley (yes, even); Yea, verily, I tell thee true (yes indeed); Is this the way? Yea, follow this path (yes, affirmative); Yea, I have seen it with mine own eyes (yes, truly); Speak you the truth? Yea, upon my honor (yes, certainly)
Additional Notes
Yea functions as affirmative response meaning "yes," but carries additional uses beyond simple agreement. In formal contexts and voting, "yea" indicates affirmative vote (opposed to "nay"). The phrase "yea, verily" or "yea, even" intensifies or extends statements: "He was brave, yea, even reckless." Students should distinguish simple affirmation from intensifying uses. In biblical language (King James), yea appears frequently for emphasis. Shakespeare uses yea in both senses. The term contrasts with "nay" (no) and differs slightly from "ay" or "aye" (yes), though distinctions blur. Etymology from Old English gea (yes). By the 18th century, yea was formal or archaic except in specific contexts (voting, Quaker speech, biblical language). Understanding yea's emphatic function helps parse agreement and intensification. Compare "yes" (standard affirmation), "yea" (formal/emphatic affirmation), and "aye" (parliamentary/naval affirmation). Modern usage preserves yea mainly in voting contexts and biblical quotation. In poetry, yea provides metrical variation and archaic coloring.
Also Known As
yay ye yes
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