Lightning cracks and thunder shrieks with great fright The rains pour down with penetrating pain Type o' storm that keeps Noah up at night Tides flood streets like an angry berserk train Still the albatross is yet to take flight Outside thunder, lightning, and floods in vain For in my heart lurks deserts, lonely drought Will these rains quench my thirst? My heart has doubt
Ottava Rima is an 8 line stanza in Iambic Pentameter with a rhyme scheme of abababcc.