In Greek poetry, lines made entirely of cretic feet are less common than other metres.
[2] However, any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition.
In other words, a poetic line might have two iambs and two trochees, with a cretic foot in between.
English Renaissance songs employed cretic dimeter fairly frequently (e.g. "Shall I die?
Because the cretic, in stress-based prosody, is natural for a comparison or antithesis, it is well suited to advertising slogans and adages.