Few cretics are found in English, though Tennyson’s brief poem The Oak is written entirely in this metre, e.g.:—
All his leaves
Fall’n at length,
Look, he stands,
Trunk and bough,
Naked strength.
Most English verse of cretic appearance is shown by the context to be trochaic with alternate τονή. So in A Midsummer Nights Dream, II. i.:—
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,