I noted before that the lines "Blunt is the pain of hunger / Cold is the wind of grief" are inverted so that the predicate adjectives precede their subjects and consequently receive some emphasis. When I listened to the song again recently, I realized that the particular sonic qualities of blunt and cold carry a sort of inherent emphasis of their own. If I understand the phonetics correctly, the initial sound of each word is a plosive (labial and velar, respectively). This force at the beginning of the words combines with their unusual placement in the syntax and results in an even stronger accentuation.
