THE PROCEDURE: A relatively simple bedside procedure in which one inserts a needle into the abdomen, thereby evacuating either a small amount of ascites fluid for diagnostic purposes, or large amounts of fluid for therapeutic purposes. It is the most cost-effective means of determining the cause of ascites.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The meter of a sonnet is called the  Iambic Pentameter. The meter of a sonnet is called the  Iambic Pentameter.
The first of the two major types of sonnets is the Petrarchan sonnet, or the Italian sonnet, which has two stanzas: the octave and the sestet. The octave consists of the first eight lines, and the sestet, the last six lines. The second type, the Shakespearean sonnet, is divided into three quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains are when each stanza has four lines, and the couplet is two successive lines of rhyming verse.