diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 5ad0d36a5..b7376f4fb 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Deprecated
 
 * The ``follow_wrapped`` argument of ``sphinx.util.inspect.signature()``
 * ``sphinx.ext.autodoc.DataDeclarationDocumenter``
+* ``sphinx.pycode.ModuleAnalyzer.parse()``
 * ``sphinx.util.requests.is_ssl_error()``
 
 Features added
diff --git a/doc/extdev/deprecated.rst b/doc/extdev/deprecated.rst
index 31de41a10..b55a67c32 100644
--- a/doc/extdev/deprecated.rst
+++ b/doc/extdev/deprecated.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ The following is a list of deprecated interfaces.
      - 5.0
      - ``sphinx.ext.autodoc.DataDocumenter``
 
+   * - ``sphinx.pycode.ModuleAnalyzer.parse()``
+     - 3.4
+     - 5.0
+     - ``sphinx.pycode.ModuleAnalyzer.analyze()``
+
    * - ``sphinx.util.requests.is_ssl_error()``
      - 3.4
      - 5.0
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py b/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py
index 278e47d88..7e3c6daa4 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ class ClassDocumenter(DocstringSignatureMixin, ModuleLevelDocumenter):  # type:
             for cls in self._signature_class.__mro__:
                 try:
                     analyzer = ModuleAnalyzer.for_module(cls.__module__)
-                    analyzer.parse()
+                    analyzer.analyze()
                     qualname = '.'.join([cls.__qualname__, self._signature_method_name])
                     if qualname in analyzer.overloads:
                         return analyzer.overloads.get(qualname)
diff --git a/sphinx/pycode/__init__.py b/sphinx/pycode/__init__.py
index c1c374bb9..05f45a6d8 100644
--- a/sphinx/pycode/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/pycode/__init__.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from os import path
 from typing import IO, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
 from zipfile import ZipFile
 
-from sphinx.deprecation import RemovedInSphinx40Warning
+from sphinx.deprecation import RemovedInSphinx40Warning, RemovedInSphinx50Warning
 from sphinx.errors import PycodeError
 from sphinx.pycode.parser import Parser
 
@@ -143,18 +143,24 @@ class ModuleAnalyzer:
             self._encoding = None
             self.code = source.read()
 
-        # will be filled by parse()
+        # will be filled by analyze()
         self.annotations = None  # type: Dict[Tuple[str, str], str]
         self.attr_docs = None    # type: Dict[Tuple[str, str], List[str]]
         self.finals = None       # type: List[str]
         self.overloads = None    # type: Dict[str, List[Signature]]
         self.tagorder = None     # type: Dict[str, int]
         self.tags = None         # type: Dict[str, Tuple[str, int, int]]
-        self._parsed = False
+        self._analyzed = False
 
     def parse(self) -> None:
         """Parse the source code."""
-        if self._parsed:
+        warnings.warn('ModuleAnalyzer.parse() is deprecated.',
+                      RemovedInSphinx50Warning, stacklevel=2)
+        self.analyze()
+
+    def analyze(self) -> None:
+        """Analyze the source code."""
+        if self._analyzed:
             return None
 
         try:
@@ -179,12 +185,12 @@ class ModuleAnalyzer:
 
     def find_attr_docs(self) -> Dict[Tuple[str, str], List[str]]:
         """Find class and module-level attributes and their documentation."""
-        self.parse()
+        self.analyze()
         return self.attr_docs
 
     def find_tags(self) -> Dict[str, Tuple[str, int, int]]:
         """Find class, function and method definitions and their location."""
-        self.parse()
+        self.analyze()
         return self.tags
 
     @property