In the poem “Upside Down” (the humorous poem studied in school, where the character keeps doing everything the wrong way), the speaker is generally identified as a boy.

Most study guides and teachers describe the main character as “a boy whose name is Upside-Down,” and the poem is narrated around his strange, foolish, but also sympathetic actions. So, when exam or homework questions ask, “Who is the speaker in the poem Upside Down , a boy or a girl?”, the expected answer is: the speaker is a boy.