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.
Most sonnets written in iambic pentameter have lines consisting of ten syllables and the ten syllables are broken into five iambs or iambic feet. Sounding out the rhythm of the poem goes something like the following: ti-TUM ti-TUM ti-TUM ti-TUM ti-TUM.