etc.
contains a simple objective rhythm. The pronounced timer will feel it clearly; the extreme stresser will not. Change the series to
etc.,
or
etc.,
and both will feel it; for in the last example both time and stress are obvious, and in the other the longer notes of the series produce the effect of stress.[7] Most persons, therefore, with a greater or less degree of consciousness, allow their physical or cerebral metronome to affect the simple
etc.,