melancholy vs misery

melancholy

noun
  • Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

  • Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. 

adj
  • Affected with great sadness or depression. 

misery

noun
  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. 

  • A bodily ache or pain. 

  • poverty. 

  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. 

How often have the words melancholy and misery occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )