| Front | Exposure |
|---|---|
| Back | 'Merciless iced east winds that knive us' -sibilance 'silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous' -sibilance of danger 'What are we doing here?' 'But nothing happens' 'Is it that we are dying?' 'Sudden successive flights of bullets steak the silence' -sibilance making bullets soft (in comparison to nature) 'slowly our ghosts drag home' -assonance of their sluggish movement 'war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy' - tripartite list makes weather more dangerous than war 'silent' and 'salient' in the rhyme scheme creating a disharmonious and evoking tension 'All their eyes are ice' 'ranks of shivering ranks' - personification of the weather as the beleaguered army |
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