No poem is well-known, if you define that as being a poem most people know. I should say 'The Good Ship Venus' is the only well-known poem by those criteria. That and 'Mary had a little lamb'.
My mouse poem is a REPLY to Burns, not a parody. The stanza is known as 'the Burns stanza' because Burns is the best known poet who used it. But he didn't invent it, he got it from Robert Fergusson, and many other poets have used it since. Including me.
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