Verbless poetry
A verbless poem is a poem without verbs. Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is a verbless poem of fourteen words:
Afanasy Fet produced two other classics of the genre: "Storm in the evening sky" and "Whisper, timid breathing". Otto Jespersen observed that the absence of verbs can give "a very definite impression of motion." It has been called "poetry without any dress, without ornament".