Death, be not proud Questions

1)
Death isn't proud and death is sleep

2)
Death isn't proud because it is a slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men. And it works with poison, war, and sickness (ln 9-10). These are logical arguments. Why should death be proud of being a slave to these things? Poison, war and sickness is how death does it's work, and these things break apart families, countries and could even bring the end of the world.

3)
I say the speaker is a man of assured faith that death is not to be feared. I come to this from reading the last three lines:
"And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep passed, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die."
The speaker says we are in a sleep, and that sleep is death, but we can always wake up. We can always open our eyes and see that we are better than death. And then death would be no more.

4)
The rhyme scheme seems to be ABBA ABBA CDDC AE. This could be most related to the Italian Sonnet because there are octave rhymes. ABBA x2 CDDC start and end the same, and have the same sound in the middle. The volta AE is a good end and a good change because the A relates it back to the beginning and the E throws a new idea in all together (the change).
In this poem the turn is when he realizes death is nothing to fear because we're better than death.