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It is unfortunately impossible to trace the plan of the poem, which presumably detailed the adventures of this unheroic character: the metre used was a curious mixture of hexametric and iambic lines.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

I notice that the reviewers have been a little shy of these hexametric efforts.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 by Various