1. A metrical foot consisting of three syllables with the stress pattern: unstressed-stressed-unstressed (∪ ¯ ∪), also called a cretic.
Usage: technical; prosody; also called cretic

Examples

• The amphimacer is less common in English poetry than the iamb or trochee.
• Classical Greek and Latin verse frequently employed the amphimacer in various metrical patterns.
• Poets studying prosody learn to identify the amphimacer by its distinctive three-syllable rhythm.
• The word 'merrily' can be scanned as an amphimacer in certain metrical contexts.