... idea of memories being powerful, because your eyes are forced from the end of one line, back to the beginning of the next, and just as the man found the song taking him back, the enjambment is "taking" the reader back. At the beginning of the first stanza, we are taken back to the present with the words "So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour." The words "burst" and "clamour" are onomatopoeic words, which inject an immediate increase in volume after the calming use of sibilance in the second stanza, and are supported by the word "appassionato". The fact that the man considers it "vain" for take such a noise shows that it has no impact on him and creates the idea of the memory having trapped him in the past. In "at castle Boterel" the man is more relaxed about returning to his past, but ...

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