He wrote elegiac poetry in two books and iambics. It contains also some iambics of the monk Bessarion on the death of Theodora. These included Dactylo-epitrites and various Aeolic metres, sometimes interspersed with iambics. In 1832, and again in 1833, he obtained the university's Porson Prize for Greek iambics. It is generally smooth in its metrical expression, employing iambics. The name "choliambics" means "lame iambics" and sometimes it is called "scazons" or "limpers".