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The amphimacer may, in English, be substituted for the dactyl, occasionally.— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
Four groups, each practically uttered as one word: the first, in this case, an iamb; the second, an amphibrachys; the third, a trochee; and the fourth, an amphimacer; and yet our schoolboy, with no other liberty but that of inflicting pain, had triumphantly scanned it as five iambs.— Essays in the Art of Writing
For the sound of some sillable stayd the eare a great while, and others slid away so quickly, as if they had not bene pronounced, then euery sillable being allowed one time, either short or long, it fell out that euery _tetrasillable_ had foure times, euery _trissillable_ three, and the _bissillable_ two by which obseruation euery word, not vnder that sise, as he ranne or stood in a verse, was called by them a foote of such and so many times, namely the _bissillable_ was either of two long times as the _spondeus_, or two short, as the _pirchius_, or of a long & a short as the _trocheus_, or of a short and a long as the _iambus_: the like rule did they set vpon the word _trissillable_, calling him a foote of three times: as the _dactilus_ of a long and two short: the _mollossus_ of three long, the _tribracchus_ of three short, the _amphibracchus_ of two long and a short, the _amphimacer_ of two short and a long.— The Arte of English Poesie
Even what seems to be dactylic of two feet, if the last syllable be sufficiently lengthened to admit of single rhyme with the full metre, becomes somewhat doubtful in its scansion; because, in such case, the last foot maybe reckoned an _amphimac_, or _amphimacer_.— The Grammar of English Grammars
For your foote antibacchius_, of two long and a short ye haue these words [_fo-rsa-ke`n_] [_i-mpu-gne`d_] and others many: For your amphimacer that is a long, a short and a long ye haue these words and many more [_e-xce`lle-nt_] [_i-mi`ne-nt_] and specially such as be propre names of persons or townes or other things and namely Welsh words; for your foote amphibracchus_, of a short, a long and a short, ye haue these words and many like to these [_re`si-ste`d_] [_de`li-ghtfu`ll_] [_re`pri-sa`ll_] [_i`nau-nte`r_] [_e`na-mi`ll_] so as for want of English wordes if your eare be not to daintie and your rules to precise, ye neede not be without the metricall feete of the ancient Poets such as be most pertinent and not superfluous.— The Arte of English Poesie
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