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 Sir John Beaumont

Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
1 poem analysed
83% affinity
Shared: leicestershire, court of common pleas, inner temple
bio 83%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
2 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: history
bio 79%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: grace
bio 78%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
3 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: religious, grace
bio 77%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 77%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: inner temple
bio 77%
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