what kind of sonnet is "holy sonnnet 10?"?

Question

is it italian ,Shakespearean or something else?

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ;
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then ?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die.

Answer 1

It has an octave (abba abba) with the structure of an Italian / Petrarchan sonnet, but then it changes in the sestet: cddc, and it has a rhyming couplet at the end, as in most English sonnets. I would say it is an English sonnet because of the rhyming couplet, but it is not purely Shakespearean. It is not Spenserian either.

More on sonnets there:
http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
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Edit: the final rhyme (eternally / die) is a convention of the period. It does not rhyme in the strict sense, but at the time, it could be pronounced so that it would.

Answer 2

sonnet 10 by John Donne is one of the sonnets with a religious theme, hence called holy sonnets.


See this link for more:

http://cs1.mcm.edu/~rayb/holy_sonnets.htm