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Definition of Amphibrachs
1. amphibrach [n] - See also: amphibrach
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphibrachs
Literary usage of Amphibrachs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of English Versification: Containing Rules for the Structure of the by Erastus Everett (1848)
"Line of two amphibrachs. This line, like the preceding, is exceedingly rare.
It has an agreeable effect, as the following example will show: ..."
2. The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and by Asa Humphrey (1847)
"The same may be said of those above cited, from Pope, Freneau, &c., as examples
of diversifications by amphibrachs. And in any case, when a supernumerary ..."
3. A Spanish Anthology: A Collection of Lyrics From The Thirteenth Century Down by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1917)
"When trisyllabic and accented on the second syllable, they are amphibrachs; Mena:
Con crines tendidos \ arder los cometas. When trisyllabic and accented on ..."
4. A Handbook of Modern English Metre by Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (1903)
"have been cited as amphibrachs, but the lines which immediately follow To a ...
Similarly the apparent amphibrachs of Christabel: That in the | dim forest ..."
5. A Manual of Our Mother Tongue by Henry Marmaduke Hewitt (1889)
"... in Trochees and amphibrachs truncated (of one syllable), and in Dactyls
truncated (of two syllables). ... amphibrachs nny be cither be ..."
6. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1907)
"... doubtless to break up a series of amphibrachs. G. made no further change. ...
the form 'sehn' for 'sehen' in order to break the series of amphibrachs. ..."
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