I'm befuddled that you don't understand that if you divide up the first beat of a two beat bar it is the whole beat that gets the emphasis, and the second beat that gets the lighter role. You could divide up that beat as many times as you need in order to show the proper feel to the musicians in the score. So you could in this case have a triplet, or in other cases go to as many subdivisions as necessary. It's not just counting the little black dots in each bar. You need 2/4 to get a 2/4 feel and if you want a first heavy note followed by two light notes then one not too heavy note followed by two even lighter notes then 6/8 would be your time signature to choose. You may want to reduce it to some simple mish-mash, but if the composer wants that feel then they'll use the score to show it, starting with the time signature.
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