Max, if you are writing a pastiche/parody, why not go whole hog and use everything at your disposal? (Answer: because many publishers won't want to bother with the extra typographical work of presenting them in side margins — especially if you want to publish excerpts in an online venue. Most online poetry venues seem to have only the most rudimentary web-design toolbox.)
For what it's worth, I first encountered the poem in high school, in a condensed version, with the sidebar notes / synopses / chapter headings included. But my high school hadn't bought new literature textbooks in decades. I doubt that many American high schools have any Coleridge on the curriculum at all anymore.
Lack of familiarity with the original shouldn't prevent people from enjoying a pastiche, though, even if they don't get all the in-jokes.
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