Can you post the actual question with the shown sentences?
D. by describing the different sports.
because he is explaining the different sports to let people know what they are like and the benefits of it.
The effect of the couplets in "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King\s Most Excellent Majesty" is that D) they allow a poet to link lines of poetry together using sound.
The second one. The first one uses unnecessary commas