Dylan actually uses quite a few classical poetic devices in his work, especially with his meter in some songs. And Dylan's stories range from the conventional to the bizarre or morbid. Girl From North Country being one of the former, The Ballad of Hollis Brown being one of the latter. But part of Dylan's strength is in fact the gritty realness of his tales. Songs like Subterranean Homesick Blues are lyrical masterpieces because they describe vivid realities with a down-to-earth, human relatability in an astonishingly verbally clever manner. He can also play out such lucid and homely tales with marevlously colorful abstract poeticisms as shown in A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. As for the lyrics you've given me from Till, they all seem like something an edgy teenager would desperately write to piss off or disturb an easily offended classmate. They're not all bad, but you said it's hard to do without sounding cheesy or forced? Honestly, the quotes you gave me? That's exactly what they seem to exude. You could've chosen a much better example of their good lyrics anyways, with, say, Amerika. Plus, offending conservative people? I'm conservative myself, but I truthfully am not irked by his lyrical content in the slightest. Dylan's lyrics propelled a generation, propelled a nationwide movement and conscience, spun wondrous and quintessentially human tales of both epic and smallsville magnitude, blew the prudish flag bearers of yore out of the water, and did all of it with a unique and fascinating eloquence. To me, Till isn't 1/32nd the lyricist Dylan is. I have yet to see a single piece of lyricism from Rammstein that even begins to compare to a Dylan song's lyrics.