scansionist
(ˈskænʃənɪst)
[f. scansion + -ist.]
One who is versed in the art of scansion.
| 1849 Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 106 The scandalised scansionist stumbles at occasional trochees. 1907 T. S. Omond Eng. Metrists ii. 60 All musical scansionists of prose seem to me apt to read into it a factitious regularity. |