prosodistn.

1765 J. Rice Introd. Art of Reading ii. §12 153 The..alternate Succession of a long and short, or a loud and soft Syllable, as is required, by our Prosodists, in the Mechanism of our English heroic Verses of ten Syllables.

1781 S. Johnson Pope in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VII. 292 Here are the swiftness of the rapid race, and the march of slow-paced majesty, exhibited by the same poet in the same sequence of syllables, except that the exact prosodist will find the line of swiftness by one time longer than that of tardiness.

c1800 J. Walker Key to Classical Pronunc. (ed. 2) Advt. If it convinces future prosodists that it is not worthy of their attention.

1849 H. Melville Mardi II. lxxvi. 321 It was this passage that an old prosodist, one Pollo, claimed for his own.

1885 J. Lecky in Philol. Soc. Proc. p. iii Prosodists assumed that the quantity of an English syllable depended on the number of sounds it contained; that, for example, ask was longer than ass (vide Guest).

1927 F. M. Ford New Poems Ded. He was no prosodist; His rhymes are false, his metres twist.

1958 V. Nabokov Let. 6 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 241 ‘Wrenched accent’ has been also applied by prosodists to what I call ‘tilting’.

2000 Times 13 Jan. iii. 42/2 He had no settled education, yet he managed to acquire both Latin and Greek; that is why he remains one of the most technically perfect of all prosodists.