on the shore of comparative metrics
I realize the deep and vast literature on this topic.
Numerical Prosody -very little known in Arab world and elsewhere - has form and substance content.
I think the use of the numerical form facilitate a lot in this field.
This subject aims at clarifying the role that the numeric expression plays overcoming language and idiom barriers. Thus, it shows the resemblance, analogy, contrast or variation between poetry meters of different languages in a way that unspecialized people can understand.
Just compare the first impression one has l