 Studying exposure. Here's how you can analyse this poem. In terms of structure this poem is written in eight stanzas. The first stanza opens by personifying nature as an enemy. Also the ellipsis shows how the wait in the long cold night feels endless for these soldiers. But nothing happens as repeated in stanzas 1, 3, 4 and 8 to show how during the first world war there was sometimes long periods of waiting in between combat. This simile shows that the actual fighting is far away. The main enemy against these soldiers is nature. Ruler 3 is used here to emphasise just how miserable these soldiers are during this war. The simile here is really powerful because it reveals that it's the cold winter, nature that's more deadly to the soldiers than war. The repetition of the words God here shows that the war has gone on for so long that the men have lost all faith in God and this metaphor emphasises how brutal fighting conditions were during the war.