The conveyance of inferences through poetic forms (i.e. punning, rhyming, parallelism,
lexical choice, etc.) is a part of poetic effect (Sperber and Wilson 1995: 217–24, where
the inferences are called “weak implicatures”; see also Pilkington 2000). The readers or
audiences are encouraged to probe into the implicit, multiple meanings intended in the text through emotional involvement, active connotations and subjective imagination, although it cannot be ascertained whether some of these meanings
(or inferences/implicatures) are indeed intended by the writer.