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.