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?

A. The lines are all equal in length.

B. The lines are visually similar.

C. The lines break only at the end punctuation.

C.The lines break only at the end punctuation.

Explanation:

As you can see, the lines are not visually similar, as some lines are short while the other ones are long. This also refers to an equal length of the lines. When you count the syllables, you can easily realize that the number of them is not the same in every line.

The most precise answer would be that the lines break at the end punctuation, like in example:

"What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt", where the line is cut in front of Walt, that is put in the second line.

can you provide the options?

substitute y = 2x - 4 to x + 2y = 12:

x + 2(2x - 4) = 12     use distributive property

x + (2)(2x) + () = 12

x + 4x - 8 = 12     add 8 to both sides

5x = 20     divide both sides by 5

x = 4

put the value of x to the first equation:

y = 2(4) - 4

y = 8 - 4

y = 4