Bar 11 momentarily cuts the count in half, with John’s fill leading to the three-bar pre-chorus, where he outlines Mercury’s tidy chord progression with root notes in a two-feel. The clipped G and F, on the second half of bar 14, leads nicely into the asymmetrical eight-bar chorus, with its five-plus-three phrasing. Bar 18’s four-beat walk-up leads to a mini-climax in the next bar, with John reaching high to catch the unison rhythm.