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rooster immediately crowed
The rooster is a male bird that calls out loudly very early in the morning. If he has made that sound he has "crowed."
a second time
"Second" here is an ordinal number. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-ordinal)
he broke down
This idiom means that he was overwhelmed with grief and lost control of his emotions. Alternate translation: "he was overwhelmed with grief" or "he lost control of his emotions" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom)