For a contest "writing a METRICAL, RHYMING brevity (50-75 words) about...a significant milestone in your life. "

72 words. 

The first two verses are in iambic pentameter rhyming ABBA CDDC; the couplet in iambic tetrameter, EE. Another 30 words and I probably could have made it a sonnet - I may have another go when it's not for a contest.

The true but extremely abbreviated story of how Juliet & I met, as much as I can tell in 70 odd words.

Postscript: I have now moved the original poem as described above to the "Original" version, because I've now expanded and modified the original to a full English sonnet which rhymes ABBA CDDC EFFE GG