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This is an alternate rhyme scheme A,C,B,D. It may be a Mesodiplosis: the repetition of a word in the middle of a line or clause. 

One bye One

Tonight I am pulling out a box of pictures
Lookin’ at’em one by one
As I am sippin’ on my elixir
I reminisce about the day we begun

Tonight we’re having a get together
They’ll arrive one by one
We’ll be sippin’ on our favorite beverage 
And we’ll be missin’ one

Tonight after saying goodbye to you 
We’ll be missin’ you separately
Some will cry some will sigh, some will just do
We’ll be missin’ you desperately

As leaves blow over and time ages
And one by one the years go past
We all have grieved in different stages
And the pain has left at last

We’ll find you in a gallery of memories 
Where we’ll think of you a lot
One by one each prayer, we’ll share
Our most intimate thoughts with God
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