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.
A sonnet is in verse form and has fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's sonnets follow the pattern abab cdcd efef gg, and Petrarch's sonnets follow the pattern abba abba cdecde.. All the lines in iambic pentameter have five feet, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.