In this task, you are given an input list. A list contains several comma-separated items written within brackets. You need to return the count of all the alphabetical elements in the given list. Return 0 if no alphabetical element in the list
['a', '6745', 'h', 'm', '729', 'F', '387', 'R', 'E', 'N', '2231', 'n', 'q', 'j', 'p', 'y', '1961', '5617']