This release contains the data used in an experiment on automatic scansion for historical Dutch song texts. Aside form the data, two models are included in this release as well. One model is essential for running the code that is part of this experiment (model_s); while the other model is an example of an acquired automatic scansion model (best_model). Item descriptions : meertens-meter-songs.zip → collection of 23,197 historic Dutch songs (xml-format). These files (and the gathered meta-data) stems from a collaboration project between the Dutch Song Database and the Digital Library for Dutch Literature . All files contain meta-data on the number of beats that is present in individual verse lines. Snippet: <code class="language-xml"><lg> <l id="s1:l1" met="4" type="-+"> Een Meysken op een Rivierken <rhyme label="a" type="m">sadt</rhyme>,</l> <l id="s1:l2" met="2" type="-+"> So schoon zy <rhyme label="b" type="m">was</rhyme>,</l> <l id="s1:l3" ...