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Tribrach means (prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables..
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/ˈtɹaɪbɹæk/ · noun
(prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables..
For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables.
Of all the resolved feet, the Tribrach in Trochaic verse with its ictus on the first syllable ⏑́⏑⏑ is most readily recognised by the ear as equivalent to the Trochee.
We may vse a Spondee or Iambick and sometime a Tribrack or Dactile.
Tribrachus or Tribrachys, (Gr[eek]) a Foot in Greek and Latin Verſe, conſiſting of three ſhort Syllables; as Pŏpŭlŭs.
If the range of pure tribrachic measure, or of tribrachs intermingled with trochees, appears much wider in our song-books than in volumes of poetry written to be read.
The plain tribrach is frequent in every one’s reading.
An optical plummet, built into either the tribrach or alidade of total station instruments, permits accurate centering over a point.
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Tribrach means (prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables..
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For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables.
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