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Abstract The study aimed to investigate metafunctional diversity in the light of textual, interpersonal, and ideational thematic relations by analyzing thematic structures in Durrani’s My Feudal Lord. A mixed-method approach was used in the current study. Data for the analysis were taken from My Feudal Lord which consisted of 18 chapters. The introductory paragraphs of each chapter were analyzed by using the UAM corpus tool. For the analysis of themes Halliday’s Theme theory of systemic functional grammar was applied to the text. The study concluded that My Feudal Lord contains a high percentage of topical themes, especially unmarked topical themes. The ratio of the textual and interpersonal theme is very low which shows that the text is not complex. The study will be helpful for the students to improve their understanding of the text and they will be able to navigate themselves through the problematic texts using this method upon understanding the idea of theme and rheme.