Numerical prosody eliminates idiom and language barriers and thus
facilitates the comparison between meters of different languages.


This is a self-explanatory example of scansion in Arabic Sanskrit and English.

نقره لتكبير أو تصغير الصورة ونقرتين لعرض الصورة في صفحة مستقلة بحجمها الطبيعي


Arabic, Sanskrit, Latin and old Greek prosodies are Quantitative. English is a stress based language.

Reference is made to the following YouTube: