A scholars has described such a structure as the "comb-teeth organization" by way of the metaphor of the comb in which the framework of biography is filled with a row of teeth that are individual episodes recounting the truths of love.
一代記というフレームに、愛情のまことをちりばめた小話が列をなしてる様を櫛にたとえて櫛歯式構成という学者もいる。