单词 | amphibrachic |
释义 | amphibrachicadj. Prosody. Consisting of, characterized by, or based on amphibrachs. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > composed in feet > amphibrachic amphibrachic1775 rockingc1883 1775 T. Sheridan Lect. Art of Reading I. iii. 214 The measure..to speak in the prosodial language, becomes purely amphibrachic. 1874 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 428/2 In the opening of Byron's Bride of Abydos..each of the three lines is in a different metre, the first dactylic, the second amphibrachic, the third anapæstic. 1909 K. Gordon Esthetics v. 71 When there is intensive accent on every third sound the series..is most easily heard as dactylic, and most hardly as amphibrachic. 1940 C. Wood Poets' Handbk. iii. 154 The concluding line returns to amphibrachic movement, but with permissible variations. 2007 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 51 720 The amphibrachic line can have a sing-songy quality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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