One possible reason that the revolutionary era poet use the blank meter was imitate the blank style

i would pick a. i think this is more of a personal question though.

the sun warms our planet, and with the moon, creates the tides. the moon orbits the earth and in turn, the earth orbits the sun. because they appear to be the same size in the sky, the sun, earth and moon work together to create eclipses. when the moon is directly in between the earth and sun