AMPHIBRACH

AM'PHIBRACH, noun [Gr. short.]In poetry, a foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short; as habere, in Latin. In English verse, it is used as the last foot, when a syllable is added to the usual number forming a double rhyme; as, The piece, you think, is incorrect, why take it?

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Am″phi‐brach (ăm″fĭ‐brăk), n. [[L. �, Gr. � short at both ends; αμφἴ + βραχύσ short.]] (Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (⏑ — ⏑); as, hăbērĕ. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet″ic.