What does amphibrachic mean?
A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable and then another unstressed syllable. In poetry, a line or verse that is written in amphibrachic meter.
Example
"The poet's use of amphibrachic meter created a sense of gentle, flowing rhythm."
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