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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 E

Een

Dialect
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

The Scots form of "eyes," used widely in poetry and song; it evokes regional dialect, intimate perception, and the soul's windows, often appearing in love lyrics and folk narratives.

Detailed Definition
"Een" is one of the most common Scots dialect words for "eyes," and it carries particular lyric power in love poetry and poems of observation. Burns describes bonnie een with characteristic warmth, and the word's brevity and soft vowel make it musically attractive in verse. In Scottish poetry, een are the windows of emotion and perception, and the word's compression into a single syllable gives it an intimacy that "eyes" sometimes lacks, drawing attention to the gaze with gentle directness.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Een" means eyes; Burns writes "Her een sae bonnie blue betrayed / how much she loved" in various lyrics; A poet might write: "Her een like lochs at evenfall / reflected stars, reflected all." for romantic description; "His een were bright wi' unshed tears — / the residue of too many years." captures restrained emotion; "The bairn's een wide wi' wonder grew / at the first sicht of morning dew." renders innocence; "Close yer een and hear the burn — / let the water teach and turn." invites meditative listening; "I read more in her een than speech / could carry or the words could reach." privileges sight over language; "His een grew dim as years came on, / but in his mind the vision shone." contrasts physical and imaginative sight
Additional Notes
Een is a beautiful monosyllable that in Scots replaces the two syllables of English "eyes," making it both metrically flexible and phonetically distinctive. In Burns and the song tradition, "een" carries enormous lyric charge — the eyes are, conventionally, the window of the soul and the primary site of love and recognition. "Her een like stars" or "twa bonnie een" appear across the tradition. The word's brevity suits the concentrated intensity of lyric verse, where every syllable counts. For students studying the Scots lyric tradition, noting how "een" functions in a love poem — what it sees, what it reveals, what it hides — is essential to understanding the emotional architecture of the poem.
Also Known As
Eyes E'en
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