Definition of Amphibrachic. Meaning of Amphibrachic. Synonyms of Amphibrachic

- humorous poetry, children's poetry, and experimental poems. The individual amphibrachic foot often appears as a variant within, for instance, anapaestic meter...
- ["white breast" and "dim sea"]): And the white breast of the dim sea Amphibrachic tetrameter: And, speaking of birds, there's the Russian Palooski, / Whose...
- one amphibrachic foot each. In French terminology, a line ending in an iambic foot was denoted as masculine, while a line ending in an amphibrachic foot...
- serpentine, turpentine (in RP, and some British English dialects) In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed...
- with stricter formal requirements. Meter and lineation are consistently amphibrachic (da DA da) rather than dactylic (DA da da), and the shortened fourth...
- humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which is sometimes obscene...
- scansion is helpful. For example, in trisyllabic measures (anapestic, amphibrachic, dactylic) it is often quite arbitrary where one divides the feet, and...
- 1922 Henry John Hooper United Kingdom George Routledge and Sons Inferno Amphibrachic tetrameter 1927 David James MacKenzie United Kingdom Longmans, Green...
- points out instances where the meter of the poem contains examples of amphibrachic, pyrrhicretic, and spondaic feet. He argues that the complexity of Yeats's...
- forever. There are five quatrains, of which the third is written in amphibrachic dimeter and the remaining ones in iambic tetrameter, which is the normal...