amphibrachs

For example, here's a pair of amphibrachs (unstressed, stressed, unstressed) that might very well summarize my entire output: romantic objective.

'The Four Fingers of Death' 2010

I, Montese Crandall, rely heavily on such strategies as alliteration, condensation, the strange, ghostly echo of metrical feet, iambs and dactyls, spondees and amphibrachs.

'The Four Fingers of Death' 2010

Here the regular accent has yielded to an accent on the middle syllable and there are two amphibrachs.

English: Composition and Literature 1899

'Full-sailed | wide-winged | poised softly | forever | asway,' the first two feet being held to be spondees, and the third and fourth amphibrachs.

A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907

Henrik Ibsen was an expatriate in Italy, then in the midst of war: as Garibaldi marched against Rome to eliminate the Papacy, Ibsen grumbled his way through various Italian beauty spots, his crazy epic poem spiralling recklessly out of the brutally hot sirocco that hit Ischia that year, so that he rose in his nightshirt sometimes because his head was so full of verse, writing down his octosyllabics and decasyllabics, the iambics, trochaics, dactylics, anapaestics and amphibrachs that all translators claim are impossible to translate into English.

theatre notes 2009