Read this stanza from allen ginsberg’s "a supermarket in california."

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.

why does the author most likely use free verse for this stanza?

The correct answer is:  

The long-line structure imitates stream-of-conscious thought.

“A Supermarket in California” by Ginsberg evokes Walt Whitman and is written in a scarcely frenzied style by applying free verse. It is a satire on American excess that both praises and denounces the fast-moving vulgarity and the increasing threat of America in the 1950s.  

third person

explanation:

note the usage of names and pronouns, "james" & "the old man". this alone can confirm it as third person, as first person uses "i" and the like, while second person uses "you" and the like.

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ma”am had a granddaughter who lived a couple blocks away from her school who later on then met friends