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When the compared terms are multiple, one arrangement is the enfolded form.
This is a different basis of division from the preceding fourfold classification. There we asked whether the terms of a particular simile were single or composite. Here several independent comparisons may be organized in one utterance, and their sequence becomes important.
If two subjects correspond to two comparison terms separately, a long poetic line does not automatically become composite-to-composite. Determine whether each pairing can stand on its own or whether the point is one overall configuration.