The emergence of stylistics

And in the late 1800s,a Polish philosopher named Wincenty Lutosławski formalized a method known as stylometry,applying this knowledge to investigate questions of literary authorship.So how does stylometry work?The idea is that each writer's style has certain characteristics that remain fairly uniform among individual works.Examples of characteristics include average sentence length,the arrangement of words,and even the number of occurrences of a particular word.