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.
Term: Sonnet. A sonnet, in English poetry, is a poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, that has one of two regular rhyme schemes - although there are a couple of exceptions, and years of experimentation that have loosened this definition.