Another image draws on the direction, height, inclination and intersection of swords, comparable with a dispersed stellar configuration. It would be inadequate to reduce the whole likeness to “swords and stars are shiny.”
The common respect is the visual structure emerging from several bodies together, including their positions, orientations and relative movement.
When each side contains several objects that form a single recognisable visible scene, both terms and the point may be composite. This follows from the intended pattern, not merely from the presence of several nouns or descriptive phrases.