# 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]])