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



Poet Affinities

Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Algernon Charles Swinburne by life & context

Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
23 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: london, desire
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
19 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: london
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
4 poems analysed
75% affinity
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: music
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
23 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: london, imagination
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: london
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
8 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: london
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: london, french
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: desire
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
8 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: imagination
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
17 August 1840–10 September 1922 (~82)
9 poems analysed
72% affinity
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
71% affinity
Shared: pre-raphaelite movement, desire
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