We have a tag scansion, with a synonym meter:
For questions about determining and representing the meter of a poem, a practice called scansion.
Can we change the master tag name to meter, and have scansion as a synonym instead? I'm pretty sure the word "meter" (in the context of poetry) is more likely to be familiar to most people than "scansion". It's worth noting that most of the questions with the scansion tag have either been asked by, or had the tag edited in by, high-rep users.
Yes! Metre (or "meter" if we must use American English) refers to the rhythmic structure of verse, whereas scansion refers to determining the metre. However, not all questions about metre are about how to determine the metre.
Unless we really need to distinguish between questions about scansion on the one hand and other questions about metre on the other, I think we should make the tag scansion a synonym of metre or meter.
Done; there seems to be a pretty strong sentiment in favor of switching them around, so... I switched them.
scansion will now remap to meter. (Tags are supposed to be in American English, but I took the liberty of adding metre as a synonym of meter, for all you Brits out there.)
