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.
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Arabic, Sanskrit, Latin and old Greek prosodies are Quantitative. English is a stress based language.
Reference is made to the following YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pETghkpUu0