Possible Clues:

• 'Whose odes awry Could Hermes try?'
• Poet Frost's to stimulate, we hear
• Would-be poet met merry with sherry!
• Merry's the work of McGonagall, say
• Writer of inferior verse
• One who may do fine with line but worse with verse?
• One of those wanting final sound agreement
• Versifier
• Poor poet writing verse, or something worse
• Society's taken in by the merry, dissolute versifier