amphibrachic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
amphibrach + -ic. From Latin amphibrachicus
Adjective[edit]
amphibrachic (not comparable)
- Consisting of amphibrachs, metrical feet consisting of either a long syllable between two that are short, or an accented syllable between two that are not accented.
- 1851, Goold Brown, The Grammar of English Grammars[1], 6th edition:
- Father Humphrey says, "Anapaestic and amphibrachic verse, being similar in measure and movement, are pleasing to the ear, and well adapted to cheerful and humourous[sic] compositions; and sometimes to elegiac compositions, and subjects important and solemn."
- 1988 December 23, Albert Williams, “Melissa, While She Sleeps”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- […] she will grow up to have long hair, a knack for the violin, an anonymous male admirer who writes her love poetry in amphibrachic tetrameter, and a son who dies in battle […] .
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Translations[edit]
consisting of amphibrachs
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