Precipitate can mean to fall quickly, to throw downward with force, steep, sudden, and other similar definitions, so your interpretation is correct. Even with all of these possible definitions, however, the exact meaning is still ambiguous, I think. Did the author mean "precipitate" in that the slope was steep? Or did they mean "precipitate" as in to go down rapidly (or just to go down)? The choice is ultimately yours, as is often the case with poetry.
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