Excellent!

:-)

Ah, it is too late and my brain is too dead to remember what that's a pastiche of...

It's a double dactyl (qq).(*)

(*) I invented this acronym by analogy with 'qv'. It stands for 'quod quaeste' and invites the reader to google for the term in question. It has yet to gain wide appeal.

(Random thought during the afternoon while doing something else) I think I mean 'quaere'. But you get the idea.

As writinghawk implies, it's not intended to pastiche any specific poem; it's just something I dreamed up myself in a relatively standard (if not usually serious) form.

If you thought it was based on something in particular, I'm interested to know what you might have had in mind. The highest-profile double dactyl I know of myself (in that it's the only one I'd encountered before I found whole websites of the things on the Internet) is the one in Gaiman's Stardust, sung to Tristran by fairies:

Hankety-pankety
Boy in a blanket, he's
Off on a goose-chase to
Look for a star

Incontrovertibly
Journeys through Faërie
Strip off the blanket to
See who you are.

But that doesn't sound particularly like mine...

To me, it's strongly reminiscent of A.A. Milne, though I can't put my finger on any specific poem.

Yes, me too. I think I may have in mind this (http://ingeb.org/songs/christop.html)

Nope, the one that I still can't remember is Dorothy Parker, or someone like her.

[Although I almost certainly have the stardust on in my subconscious as well]

You're thinking (with probability approaching 1) of Wendy Cope on Emily Dickinson:
Higgledy-piggledy---
Emily Dickinson
Liked to use dashes--- in
Stead of full stops---
Nowadays, faced with such
Idiosyncrasy,
Hard-headed editors
Send for the cops.

You are 100% right. I'm very impressed!

Brilliant! Please go to the pub more often :-)

OK, so why was fanf praising the "mouse trails" feature in Windows? Once upon a time, when laptop screens had a persistence measured in seconds not milliseconds, they were occasionally useful, but on a modern display?

*applause*

LOLZ0R.