A verbless poem, a poem without verbs. Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is a verbless poem of fourteen words:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Afanasy Fet produced two other classics of the genre: "Storm in the evening sky" (Буря на небе вечернем, 1842) and "Whisper, timid breathing" (Шепот, робкое дыханье, 1850).Hirsch, Edward 'A Poet's Glossary', Houghton Mifflin London 2012 Otto Jespersen observed that the absence of verbs can give "a very definite impression of motion."Jespersen, Otto, 'Role of the Verb, Selected Writings'. 1912 It has been called "poetry without any dress, without ornament".Hearn, Lafcadio 'Lecture' Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan
See also Haiku Haiku in English Imagism Imaginism
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External links Verbless Poetry article