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metrical structure

n. The pattern of the beats in a piece of music, which includes meter, tempo, and all other rhythmic aspects.

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Around the distant not-star, and around Danny, an invisible and basic storm seemed to be raging, as if the very metrical structure of space were being tortured, its geodesics twisted like the strands in a dishcloth.