Oświeceniowy rebus polityczny. O ukrytych w akrostychach nazwiskach wodzów targowickich [Enlightenment political rebus. About the hidden in acrostics names of commanders of Targowica]

Acrostics, works belonging to the mainstream of artistic poetry, were particularly popular in the Middle Ages and the Baroque era, but also enjoyed success in other periods of literature. The simplest form of this statement was to enter author’s personal data in the work, but there were more complex literary puzzles, such as logogryf in which the syllables of words are read from the hidden content. Many acrostics include elaborately arranged compliments (e. g. titles of recipients), thanks, greetings, requests, etc., and even insults. Being the subject of this study acrostics relate to commanders of Targowica — Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki and Szymon Marcin Kossakowski . Attractive form of text, most likely was an incentive to read, and perhaps made it easier to memorize rhymes. Although the poems themselves were not outstanding, they can capture images of traitors in a slightly different way than usual: short, more interesting and quite ingeniously, which resulted from the same assumptions of the genre.