Question

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

 In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

—“A Supermarket in California,”
Allen Ginsberg

Which of these statements about the lengths of the lines in this poem is true?

Answer 1

The lines are irregular in length. Ginsberg writes in free verse, so the lines vary from short to long and flow with natural speech and enjambment rather than a fixed meter or consistent line length.