Definitions for amphibrach
ˈæm fəˌbrækam·phi·brach

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1. amphibrachnoun

   a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')

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1. amphibrachnoun

   A metrical foot in ancient Greek or Latin consisting of two short syllables surrounding one long one (e.g. amata).

2. amphibrachnoun

   A metrical foot in modern prosody, consisting of three syllables, the middle one of which is stressed (e.g. Jamaica).

3. Etymology: From amphibrachus, from ἀμϕίβραχυς, from ἀμϕί + βραχύς.

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1. Amphibrach

   An amphibrach () is a metrical foot used in Latin and Greek prosody. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables. The word comes from the Greek ἀμφίβραχυς, amphíbrakhys, "short on both sides". In English accentual-syllabic poetry, an amphibrach is a stressed syllable surrounded by two unstressed syllables. It is rarely used as the overall meter of a poem, usually appearing only in a small amount of humorous poetry, children's poetry, and experimental poems. The individual amphibrachic foot often appears as a variant within, for instance, anapaestic meter. It is the main foot used in the construction of the limerick, as in "There once was / a girl from / Nantucket." It was also used by the Victorians for narrative poetry, e.g. Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket" (1817) beginning "How dear to / my heart are / the scenes of / my childhood." W. H. Auden's poem "O where are you going?" (1931) is a more recent and slightly less metrically-regular example. The amphibrach is also often used in ballads and light verse, such as the hypermetrical lines of Sir John Betjeman's poem "Meditation on the A30" (1966).

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1. amphibrach

   An amphibrach is a metrical foot used in traditional poetry, consisting of three syllables: the first and third syllable are short or unstressed, and the second syllable is long or stressed. This creates a pattern of "short - long - short" or in terms of stress "unstressed - stressed - unstressed". It is commonly used in English-language limerick verses.

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1. Amphibrachnoun

   a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic

2. Etymology: [L. , Gr. short at both ends; 'amfi` + brachy`s short.]

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1. Amphibrach

   An amphibrach is a metrical foot used in Latin and Greek prosody. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables. The word comes from the Greek αμφίβραχυς, amphíbrakhys, "short on both sides". In English accentual-syllabic poetry, an amphibrach is a stressed syllable surrounded by two unstressed syllables. It is the main foot used in the construction of the limerick, as in "There once was / a girl from / Nantucket." It was also used by the Victorians for narrative poetry, e.g. Samuel Woodworth's "The Old Oaken Bucket" beginning "How dear to / my heart are / the scenes of / my childhood." W.H. Auden's "Oh Where Are You Going" is a more recent and slightly less metrically-regular example. The amphibrach is also often used in ballads and light verse, such as the hypermetrical lines of Sir John Betjeman's "Meditation on the A30". Amphibrachs are a staple meter of Russian poetry. A common variation in an amphibrachic line, in both Russian and English, is to end the line with an iamb, as Thomas Hardy does in "The Ruined Maid": "Oh did n't / you know I'd / been ru in'd / said she". Some books by Dr. Seuss contain many lines written in amphibrachs, such as these from If I Ran the Circus:

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1. Amphibrach

   am′fi-brak, n. in prosody, a foot of three syllables—a short, a long, and a short, as ămārĕ. The name is sometimes applied in English to such a word as amusement, where an accented syllable falls between two unaccented. [L.—Gr., made up of Gr. amphi, on each side, brachys, short.]

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1. • Metrical Foot

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How to pronounce amphibrach?

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How to say amphibrach in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of amphibrach in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of amphibrach in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=amphibrach
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amphibrach
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibrach
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amphibrach
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=amphibrach
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=amphibrach
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=amphibrach