noun
- Plural of amphibrach; metrical feet, each consisting of three syllables with the stress pattern short-long-short (or unstressed-stressed-unstressed).
Usage: technical; prosody; used in poetry and metrics analysis
Examples
- The poet used amphibrachs to create a bouncing, rhythmic effect in the verse.
- In classical prosody, amphibrachs are less common than iambs or trochees.
- The line scanned as a series of amphibrachs, giving it a distinctive metrical pattern.
- Students of poetry learn to identify amphibrachs alongside other metrical feet.