lose - allow to go out of sight; The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light 7. lose - fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!; The company turned a loss after the first year turn a loss break even - make neither profit nor loss
Melancholy is a state of being sad, gloomy, or even pensive. When there is something weighing on your mind, you can become quiet and withdrawn, preferring to be with your own thoughts in order to make some sense of what is going on.
Cadence is the rhythmic rising and falling of a text, and it is especially applicable in poetry. Poets create cadence by making choices about where to start and end lines and where to place punctuation. A smoother, or perfect, cadence is created when the lines end where phrases or sentences end.