Analysis of Alac, Alac, What Shall I Do
Alac, alac, what shall I do,
For care is cast into my hart,
And trew love lokked therto?
| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 111111 11110111 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 94 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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