I'm struggling with variant rhyme schemes for the last sestet. Keep trying new things to figure out what kind of rhythm or feeling each one is best suited to conveying, and I feel like mostly I'm just limping along. This one is CDECDE, and it's the ones with E, with three rhymes in the last sestet, that I'm having trouble with. I'm not sure how that's supposed to sound, but it's not quite how I'm doing it.

At any rate, this one is something grim from the perspective of a prototype like Bluebird. Most of them aren't very happy. Their Queen (a higher-order AI) gave them the capacity for suffering, so that they would be miserable without her. She did not give them the capacity to question her or hate her.

I guess I can relate.