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.

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 Charles Wesley

Isaac Watts
17 July 1674–25 November 1748 (~74)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: hymns, divine, christ
bio 77%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: religious, anglican, church
bio 72%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: divine, religious
bio 72%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
2 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: faith, religious
bio 72%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
1 poem analysed
71% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 71%
William Whiting
1 November 1825–3 May 1878 (~53)
2 poems analysed
71% affinity
Shared: divine, christ, religious
bio 71%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
3 poems analysed
71% affinity
Shared: divine, religious, church
bio 71%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
1 poem analysed
70% affinity
Shared: religious, anglican, church
bio 70%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
3 poems analysed
69% affinity
Shared: faith
bio 69%
Cecil Frances Alexander
14 April 1818–12 October 1895 (~77)
3 poems analysed
68% affinity
Shared: hymns, faith, religious
bio 68%
Thomas Edwards Hankinson
19 June 1805–6 October 1843 (~38)
2 poems analysed
68% affinity
Shared: divine, religious, church
bio 68%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
51 poems analysed
68% affinity
bio 68%
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