Neo-Miltonic Syllabics is a group of poems written by Robert Bridges

Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:...

 between 1921 and 1925, and collected in his book New Verse (1925

1925 in poetry

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). The poems are based on a syllabic

Syllabic verse

Syllabic verse is a poetic form having a fixed number of syllables per line regardless of the number of stresses that are present. It is common in languages that are syllable-timed, such as Japanese or modern French or Finnish — as opposed to stress-timed languages such as English, in which...

 meter, which Bridges arrived at through his detailed analysis of Milton's poems, which is explained in detail in his book Milton's Prosody

Milton's Prosody (book)

Milton's Prosody, or in full, Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges. It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889, and a final revised edition was published in 1921....

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The first poem in this form was 'Poor Poll

Poor Poll

Poor Poll is a poem written by Robert Bridges in 1921, and first collected in his book New Verse . The poem is the first example of Bridges' Neo-Miltonic Syllabics....

', which F. T. Prince

F. T. Prince

Frank Templeton Prince was a British poet and academic, known generally for his best-known poem Soldiers Bathing, written during the Second World War in 1942, which has been frequently included in anthologies....

regarded as the best illustration of Bridges' meter.