Well, Stephen, as a rule, hand tools are pretty self-explanatory. But this one stumped me, so I went to http://www.stanleyworks.com to see if they addressed this issue. Sure enough, youâre not alone in wanting to know the answer to this question, as its inclusion in the FAQ section indicates.
Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.nly three of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets do not conform to this structure: Sonnet 99, which has 15 lines; Sonnet 126, which has 12 lines; and Sonnet 145, which is written in iambic tetrameter.
An English or Shakespearean is one of the simplest form in all sonnet poems and consists of 14 lines where each line contains ten syllables and is written in iambic pentameter. The format of a Shakespearian sonnet has a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable which is repeated five times.he Italian or Petrarchan sonnet is one of the oldest sonnet forms in the world of literature. This sonnet is further composed of two types of stanza forms. The group of first 8 lines is called the Octave with the rhyming structure abba abba.