What is asymmetric about the bell phrase? What is symmetric about the bell phrase? What other symmetric units are occurring in the music?

What will be an ideal response?

• The bell phrase consists of unequal lengths of strokes, long and short (asymmetry), but the duration of a bell phrase is a symmetrical unit, a "literal measure of the time."
• The axatse and kaganu tones mark that measure (of the duration of the bell phrase) into four equal ternary units.