Written in pararhyme (not fully formed rhyme), exposing propaganda that cut short and didn't fully develop mens lives, or readers wait for rhyme to complete, just as soldiers wait and unsettles reader.
Title exposes propaganda and inhumane war, belligerent conditions, as well as exposure to elements
Identity - soldiers expected to be strong, masculine and go to war. Exposes how men are being demasculinised by the weather.
"All their eyes are ice" homophone
"Dawn massing in the East, her melancholy army"
Nature could be said to be revolting against war, as it's such an unnatural process