An amphibrach is a metrical foot used in Latin and Greek prosody. It consists of a long syllable between two short syllables.

Amphibrachs are seldom used to construct an entire poem. They mainly occur as variants within, for instance, an anapaestic structure.

In English, stress-based poetry an amphibrach is a stressed syllable surrounded by two unstressed syllables. It is the main foot used in the construction of the limerick, e.g., "There was a | young lady | of Wantage"

The amphibrach is also often used in ballads and light verse, such as the hypermetrical lines of Sir John Betjeman's Meditation on the A40

Poetic form

Amphibrachys | Amfibrachys | Амфибрахий