<|im_start|>system
You are a helpful assistant. You first think about the reasoning process in the mind and then provide the user with the answer. You should try to truely solve the question by yourself without cheating.  <|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
 Horatio is a poet composing sonnets for his lady fair. He believes it will take many of his sonnets to win her over. Each sonnet is 16 lines long. His lady fair tells him to leave her alone after he reads her only nine sonnets, and Horatio is heartbroken over the 126 romantic lines he wrote that she never heard. How many sonnets did Horatio write in all? Show your work in <think> </think> tags. And return the final answer in <answer> </answer> tags.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
Let me solve this step by step.
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Horatio is a poet composing sonnets for his lady fair. He believes it will take many of his sonnets to win her over. Each sonnet is 16 lines long. His lady fair tells him to leave her alone after he reads her only nine sonnets, and Horatio is heartbroken over the 126 romantic lines he wrote that she never heard. How many sonnets did Horatio write in all?
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