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Once the ice forms a solid the crystalline structure is set. It is not "more" frozen as the temperature drops. It is like any other solid and gets colder. Is water more water at 20 oC or 30 oC? - it is just water.
The solid would have to be heated to 0 oC (32 oF) before bonds would be broken for the solid to start to melt. All inter molecular bonds have to break (latent heat of fusion) before the solid turns completely to liquid.

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