exposure

• "but nothing happens" - repetition / sense of boredom
• "our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us" - personification/ sibilance
• "dawn massing in the east her melancholy army" - personification
• "attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey" - colour imagery/ military vocab
• "less deadly that the air that shudders black with snow" - personification/ contrasting images/ close to death
• "slowly our ghosts drag home" - metaphor/ soldiers on the brink of death
• "all their eyes are ice" - metaphor/ extreme effects of the weather