u) at any place except immediately before the end of the line or before the central dieresis. So for example whether in iambic or trochaic poetry a long element can be replaced by two short syllables. Usually the word accent falls at the beginning of the long syllable: "always something" (with a tribrach replacing u –) "it happened to the old men" (with a tribrach replacing – u) There are certain rules of word division in a tribrach. For example, a tribrach word such as is not found replacing an iamb (u –) but only replacing a trochee (– u). This rule, however, does not apply in Greek, where word-accent has no effect on the metre. Occasionally two tribrachs are found together in a verse: "when the mistress has given birth" An example of a double tribrach in more serious verse is found in the poem said to have been written by the emperor Hadrian on his deathbed, Animula vagula blandula. Each line of the poem is in an iambic dimeter (u – u – | u – u –), but in the first and fourth lines the first two long elements are resolved into two short syllables, making a tribrach: Poor little, wandering, charming soul Guest and companion of my body, What place will you go to now? Pale, stiff, naked little thing, Nor will you be making jokes as you usually do. In English poetry Just as in Latin poetry, a tribrach can replace a trochee in trochaic metre: Humpty / Dumpty / sat on a / wall In the music which is traditionally used for this nursery rhyme (see Humpty Dumpty), the words "Humpty" and "Dumpty" are given a quarter note + eighth note, while "sat on a" has three eighth notes. As in Latin, a tribrach can also replace a trochaic portion of an iambic line, as in this example from "Teddy Bears' Picnic" (1932): The / little / teddy / bears are / having a / lovely / time to/day The substitution of a tribrach for a trochee is often associated with children's poetry. An example in a more serious poem is the following, from Sam Ryder's song "Space Man" (2022). In the refrain a tribrach is used for the words "nothing but" in a similar way with three short equal notes in the music: I've / searched a/round the / uni/verse / Been down