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Amphibrach

//ˈam.fɪ.bɹak// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A metrical foot in ancient Greek or Latin consisting of two short syllables surrounding one long one (e.g. amāta).
  2. 2
    a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., ‘remember’) wordnet
  3. 3
    A metrical foot in modern prosody, consisting of three syllables, the middle one of which is stressed (e.g. Jamaica).

    "Then Banoffsky launched into Glinka's great amphibrachs [...]: Subside, agitation of passion!"

Etymology

From Latin amphibrachys, from Ancient Greek ἀμφίβραχυς (amphíbrakhus, “short at both ends”), from ἀμφί (amphí) + βραχύς (brakhús, “short”).

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