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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 T

Thegither

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

Together; the Scots form of "together," used to express unity or combined action.

Detailed Definition
"Thegither" carries the warm Scots emphasis on collective solidarity and shared endeavour. It appears in poems of community, love, and national feeling, and its longer form compared to "together" gives it a slightly more emphatic, drawn-out quality in verse. Burns uses it in songs of friendship and love, and it appears in the tradition of Scots communal song as an expression of the bonds that hold people and communities together. The word embodies the social values of a culture that prizes loyalty and collective identity.
Example
Example in poetry:
"Thegither" means together; Burns uses "thegither" in various poems; A poet might write: "They walked thegither doun the brae — / nae need for words tae fill the day." for a companionship poem; "Thegither they faced the winter's worst — / nae single burden felt like first." celebrates shared hardship; "Come thegither, bring yer lantern — / the dark is shorter when we're gath'ring." uses the word for communal action; "They fell thegither and they rose — / as all true partnerships do, God knows." traces a partnership's full arc; "Thegither is the finest word — / nae lonelier sound was ever heard / as 'alane.'" uses contrast to amplify the word's warmth
Additional Notes
Thegither is one of the key communal words in Scots verse — "together" is always more than a spatial or temporal description; it carries the moral and emotional weight of solidarity, shared purpose, and belonging. In Burns's poetry, "thegither" appears in scenes of communal celebration, shared labour, and mutual support. In love poetry, it marks the union of lovers against the world. In poems of exile and diaspora, its absence is the defining sorrow. For students, "thegither" is a reminder that Scots verse is fundamentally a social poetry — concerned not just with individual feeling but with how individuals relate to, depend on, and find meaning in their communities.
Also Known As
Together Altogether
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