gistfile1.py

from nltk.probability import FreqDist
from nltk import Text

#An example list of tokens, replace this list of tokens with one gained from each corpus sample
tokens = ["one","ring","to","rule","them","all"]
 
#First create a Text object from your sample of tokens
my_text = Text(tokens) 

#Next create a FreqDist object from the newly created Text object      
my_freqdist = FreqDist(my_text)                         

#Print items in the FreqDist to show that it worked:
for item,frequency in freqdist.items():
    print item,frequency