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... g around the huge cathedral for many years and is now wearing away. McCaig goes on to give more details of the dwarfs appearance: "whose eyes, wept pus, whose back was higher than his head, whose lopsided mouth" All of these properties of the dwarf are very brutal, McCaig says this to make the reader feel pity for the dwarf but surprisingly McCaig goes on to tell how the dwarf had a voice as sweet as a child's: "Said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child's when she speaks to her mother." I think McCaig does this to give the reader an element of surprise by giving the dwarf such a sweet voice when the reader would expect a rough, deep voice, McCaig uses very good figures of speech in these both stanzas describing the dwarf. In stanza 3 there is an extended metaphor comparing the tourists to hens: "A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as ...
