"Conversation off Floral Street"

Last week, I wrote out the bass part for "Conversation off Floral Street" and discovered that it's quite unusual.  It starts out simply enough, with this repeated figure in 4/4:

But then at ~0:24, the song changes meter.  I think it's 7/4, something like this:

In the BBC Mastertapes program (the A side), Rod Argent (who wrote "Conversation off Floral Street") comments on the off-beat hand claps in "Time of the Season" and explains that "I've always loved the idea of broken rhythms in verses and then it developing into something that was more straight ahead and building to some sort of climax."  This change in meter in "Conversation off Floral Street" seems to be an extreme example of this, especially since the second half of each 7/4 measure has notes that occur on the upbeats rather than the downbeats.