That is true of some of his songs as seen on the page, but that could also be said of bad translations of page poetry. For me it's the imagery and emotions poems evoke more than how they "sound" via poetic metrics etc.
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Jamie McKendrick wrote:
(In the case of Dylan, some great phrases and lines, but I'm still of the view that, for the most part, shorn of his extraordinary voice and the accompaniment, they mostly read as bad poetry.)
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