Think about it, 16 years old? You become a adult when you turn 18. You would also have to be more responsible because 18 is the age you're actions have huge consequences. If you're 16 the worst that could happen is that you get grounded!
<span>It was on such an island in the third summer of its yellow green that we built our watch fire. Not in the thicket of dancing willow wands, but on the level terrace of fine sand which has been added that spring a little new bit of world beautifully ridged with ripple marks and strewn with the tiny skeletons of turtles and fish all as white and dry as if they had been expertly cured. We had been careful not to mar the freshness of the place although we often swam to it on summer evenings and lay on the sand to rest.</span>
Answer:
The poem is written in dactylic hexameter, with six dactyls in each line