refrence to nature like the animal refrences but omens of death
There is no direct address. "I" is the subject, "dear friend" is an interjection, "the time" is just a noun and same with "goodbye"
a phrase is a group of words which act together as a grammatical unit. For instance, the English expression "the very happy squirrel" is a noun phrase which contains the adjective phrase "very happy". Phrases can consist of a single word or a complete sentence.
