The individual amphibrachic foot often appears as a variant within, for instance, anapaestic meter.
It was also used by the Victorians for narrative poetry, e.g. Samuel Woodworth's poem "The Old Oaken Bucket" (1817) beginning "How dear to / my heart are / the scenes of / my childhood.
The amphibrach is also often used in ballads and light verse, such as the hypermetrical lines of Sir John Betjeman's poem "Meditation on the A30" (1966).
In the poem "Walc" (English: "Waltz") from Czesław Miłosz's 1945 collection Ocalenie the first line is feminine, ◡–◡◡–◡◡–◡◡–◡, the second masculine, ◡–◡◡–◡◡–◡◡–, and so on.
[5] Jan Bolesław Ożóg experimented with irregular amphibrachic verse with different numbers of feet in successive lines.