What do the stanzas in "A Psalm of Life" have in common?

Each stanza develops the poem’s central idea that life should be lived actively and purposefully. The speaker moves through related reflections—rejecting the idea that life is merely a dream, urging action, and encouraging courage and perseverance—so the stanzas show stages in a thought process. They do not primarily tell a sequence of story events or describe parts of an object.

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