Stylistic Quality of Word Frequency (Statistical Analysis of Selected Samples from Mutanabbi,Ibn Hani Andulusi & Ahmad Shawqi's Odes)

Frequency of vocabulary used in a piece of writing, prose or poetry, is one of the stylistic features of the writer. Words are like bricks which constitute the structure of a literary work, and the way the writer puts or organizes the words, reflects his/her literary characteristics which in turn distinguishes him/her from other writers. Being simply one of the elements constituting the writer’s style, frequency of the words used in a literary work can-on analysis- demonstrate some secrets of the literary style. Assessing reiteration and frequency of the words in Mutanabbi and Ibn Hani’ and Shawqi, three Arab poets’ selected odes, this paper displays that diversity of words is the highest in Ibn Hani’ ‘s poems and the lowest in Shawqi’s, whilst Mutanabbi’s poems possess a moderate variety in between. The results of this research justify the efficiency of the statistical method applied.