Ali Akbar Mollaie
Abstract
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 ...
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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.
