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It’s not iambic pentameter, and there is use of cezura
The structure is cyclic, so the poem ends in the same place that it starts, emphasising how meaningless their suffering is.

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It’s the voice of the soldiers as a collective - uses group personal pronouns “we” and “us”

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Context
Written during First World War by solider Wilfred Owen. Owen used his writing to inform people back in Britain about the horrors of the war and in particular about life on the front line. The picture they painted contridicted the scenes of glory portrayed in the British press.

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Christianity : In the seventh stanza, Owen question if there is any meaningful comfort that faith can provide, when there is no hope of salvation and “love of God seems dying”. He draws parallels to the idea of suffering for others, “since we believe... not loath we lie out here”, and questions if it is true or not, “For love of God seems dying”

Nature: For the first four stanzas the main theme seems to be about the power of nature, Owen often refers “ice” “frost” and “mud”. When talking about surviving and how they are currently living he refers to these harsh weather conditions, however when talking about death and dying, he refers to “blackbirds” “dawn” and “trickling blossoms”. This suggests that death seems blissful to the men, whereas living is harsh.

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Tone, mood, atmosphere

Exhaustion

Power of nature

Lies of war

Futility of war

Belief in God and questioning of personal faith

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At the end of each verse there is a shorter line - either “but nothing happens” or a short dramatic statement about death, emphasises the idea of passive suffering, there is no rewards for their suffering except that it ends

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A group of soldiers struggling to survive the war. Nature is described to be deadlier than the machines and guns used in the battlefield. Questioning the reality of war.

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Language + imagery
Owen uses lots of words like “dragged” and “glimps”, suggesting exhaustion
Lots of natural imagery, using words like “ice”, “mud”, and “brambles”  create an image of harsh survival and the natural world.
Graphic and unsettling words like “brains” “knive” and “twitching “ show the raw pain of the soldiers.
There is lots of contrasting imagery, like “poignant misery of dawn”, which could be emphasising the contrast between the reality of war and what they thought war would be like