 Note that in this case the poem provides the conclusion, not the premises. So it fits Black’s (1990: 226) description that “What appears in the finished product is not a poetic syllogism … but only its conclusion”. Are the hearers supposed to reconstruct the poet’s premises by telepathy? Black leaves the problem open, but in fact it’s a problem we have met before. In [Syllogism] 19.10f al-Fārābī tells us that