Answer:
accent
Explanation:
A pure and simple succession of heartbeats does not yet seem sufficient to set a rhythm.
This is where the first essentially musical rhythmic factor intervenes: the accents.
In the sound of the alarm clock, it is easy to see that the tics are a bit more pronounced than the taps.
Thus, instead of a simple succession of equal pulsations, we actually have a series of pulses of the same duration, but grouped two by two, the first one always a little stronger, accentuated:
TIC-TAC, TIC-TAC, TIC-TAC, TIC-TAC, TIC-TAC
These accents, the tics of our example, give an elementary principle of order to the succession of times: the groupings of two pulsations, one strong, the other weak.
