هُوَ شَمْسٌ وَأَسَدٌ وَبَحْرٌ جُودًا وَبَهَاءً وَشَجَاعَةً
He is sun, lion, and sea in generosity, radiance, and courage.
The first group is sun, lion, and sea; the second is generosity, splendor, and courage. The proper correspondences are sea/generosity, sun/splendor, and lion/courage. Since the second sequence does not follow the first, this illustrates non-sequential laff wa-nashr.
An analyst who matches terms simply by their positions will misclassify the example. Establish the semantic pairings first, and only then compare their order.