Amphibrach

n.

1.

(Anc. Pros.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (ă - ă); as, hăbērĕ. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet`ic.

Noun

1.

amphibrach - a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')

foot, metrical foot, metrical unit