How to write a Bob Dylan song: A creative-writing exercise

My latest exercise for my poetry and songwriting class is to "write a Bob Dylan song", like "Queen Jane Approximately" from "Highway 61 Revisited" (1965), with a one-line refrain to end each stanza: "Won't you come and see me, Queen Jane?" First, come up with a good refrain line that ends with a good rhyme word. Then pick a form for your stanzas, the simplest being a quatrain with an ABAB rhyme. Then make a list of rhymes for your rhyme word. Now write lines to rhyme with your refrain, and then brainstorm what goes around those lines. Write many more stanzas than you need, then keep all the good ones. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 25 November 2024)