noun
- metrical feet in poetry consisting of three short or unstressed syllables
Usage: prosody; technical
Examples
- The poet used tribrachs to create a rapid, flowing rhythm in the verse.
- Classical Latin poetry occasionally employed tribrachs for metrical variation.
- Students of prosody learn to identify tribrachs among other metrical feet.
- The line contained two tribrachs followed by an iamb.
- Tribrachs are less common than iambs or trochees in English poetry.