Structure:
* Stanza 1: The speaker personifies Death as a gentleman who has come to take her on a carriage ride. She describes the ride in detail, noting the "wheels of satin" and the "horses' heads."
* Stanza 2: The speaker and Death continue to ride through the countryside, and the speaker begins to feel a sense of peace. She notes that she is "going home" and that she is no longer afraid of death.
* Stanza 3: The carriage stops in front of a house, and the speaker gets out. She enters the house and lies down on a bed, where she dies.
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter, a meter consisting of four iambs (stressed-unstressed syllables). The rhyme scheme is ABABCDCDEE.