A Prayer for My Daughter its "metremes", or rhymical motifs, rather than common metrical devices. The poem also may be read to consist of straightforward iambic verse that relies on common metrical devices such as elision, acephalous lines, promotion, and metrical inversion. Lines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 of each stanza are iambic pentameter; lines 4, 6, and 7 are iambic tetrameter. For instance, using traditional principles of scansion, stanza two may be scanned as shown below, where syllables in all caps represent metrical beats, lower-case syllables represent metrical off-beats, the vertical bar represents the termination of a metrical foot, and apostrophes represent elisions.
A Treatise on Poetry annual "Kultura" literary prize. Miłosz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980 for his literary works. In 2001, Miłosz, who was pleased by the renewed appreciation of the "Treatise" following its English translation, said. "It has been a great pleasure to see my poem apparently not getting old... I am proud of having written a poem that deals with historical, political and aesthetic issues." A Treatise on Poetry A Treatise on Poetry () is book-length poem in Polish by Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz on Polish literature, poetry and history from 1900 to 1949. Written in 1955 and 1956,