Long funeral poems are very difficult to get through without plenty of support and practice and choose the poems you want, not what everyone else thinks you should read. Writing a poem for parent's funeral can be near impossible, you've just lost one or both of the most loving people in the world and writing a funeral poem is probably going to be impossible.
It can be difficult for someone who is not a literary expert to come up with something romantic and poetic themselves, but what you need to say is likely to have already been written for you by another poet. Some of the best funeral poems only need to be read once for you to see your loved one in them, don't try to read too much into any one poem, you may just be forcing the verse into how others saw the deceased, the funeral poems should feel natural. Their poems are masterpieces and treasured by posterity.
What is your poem going to be about, it should focus on one theme or topic. The poem reads similar to many of his love sonnets, and in fact has been debated for some time as many believe it is in fact a love poem. Read Shakespeare's love poems carefully as not all of the 154 sonnets are directed happily towards a loved one.
Poetry today does not ruminate nearly as much on friendship as it does on love, and the closeness of any two friends is admittedly not as defined as it once was. What a treasure the poem will be.
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