This is an analysis of Alas! What Boots The Long Laborious Quest by William Wordsworth.
ALAS! what boots the long laborious quest
Of moral prudence, sought through good and ill;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcada
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 01110101001 0101011011 1101010100 1111010101 11001010101 0101010101 10010111001 0101001110 0101010101 1111110101 0111010111 0101000111 1111100101 1101010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
